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High Speed Chamber Airflow and "Spinning Down a Beer"

Spinning Down a Beer

Date: 06/12/17

Author: Neill

Low Frequency Resonance Excitation

Hello, All,

Recently I took advantage of a quite Friday afternoon to create an experiment/demonstration of a low frequency resonance being excited on the Qualmark RS system. I took three different lengths of 3/8" all-thread rod and fixtured...

Date: 06/01/17

Author: Neill

BGA Failures during Cold Step Stress testing in HALT

I recently had the opportunity to do HALT on several samples of a product that was densely populated with BGA mounted devices. During the testing I was surprised to find many hard failures in the devices during cold thermal step testing, in the range...

Date: 04/28/17

Author: Neill

Will HALT Accelerate Fretting Corrosion?

Recently a Qualmark customer emailed us asking if fretting corrosion on connectors could be accelerated using HALT methodologies. Here is our response:

Date: 12/30/16

Author: Neill

Budgeting for HALT Lab Work in 2017

As you plan your lab services for 2017, whether at Qualmark’s Accelerated Reliability Test Center (ARTC) Lab in Denver or one of our authorized partner labs, here are some key items to consider in your budgeting process: ACTUAL LAB TIME The total...

Date: 12/20/16

Author: Neill

Year End Planning and Preparing Your Lab Budget – Part 1

It’s almost the end of the year again, and whether you work for big or small company you know that it is time for submitting budgets for next year as well as making sure you’ve squeezed the last penny you can out of your budget for this year.

Date: 12/14/16

Author: Neill