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News Release from: Practical Components | Subject: 2004 design guide
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2004
Catalogue eases switch to RoHS/WEEE
standards
Practical Components has recently published a new in 2004 comprehensive design guide/product catalogue.
Practical Components has recently published a new in 2004 comprehensive design guide/product catalogue Practical Components reckons it is the world's leading supplier of dummy components which are exact mechanical equivalents of live components that are used when only the physical properties of the components are required
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Practical Components offers a variety of "dummy" packages in lead-free finishes.
These components can cost as much as 80% less than live components making the ideal for testing of solder processes, machine setup, rework and production training and other process evaluations.
The new 2004 88-page publication provides a detailed offering of most of Practical Components' full line of dummy components, test boards, training kits, production tools and training materials.
There are extensive new offerings tuned specifically to the nearing 2006 deadline of RoHS/WEEE standards for the reduction of hazardous waste in electronic assembly.
Highlights of the new catalogue include numerous lead-free rework and assembly training kits in several available finishes and formulations, a comprehensive lead-free machine process validation kit and analytical service, machine assembly attribute defect rate kit, new Pb free metric 0402 dummy resistors and plastic inline dual packages (PDIP).
Over 95% of all package types are now available lead-free.
On request the machine ready boards comes with demonstration versions of CircuitCAM and CheckPoint manufacturing software, ready-to-run CircuitCAM project files (CPFs) and Gerber and x, y theta data at no extra charge Included is a description of each product as well as technical data, drawings and helpful technical and design hints.
This detailed information is also available 24/7 on the Practical Components website.
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