I was asked to join in on a visit to this particular company to ascertain their suitability as an alternate source of some RF components for use in military products. In particular, we were interested ...

In the run-up to pv magazine’s quality roundtable at Intersolar Europe, we look at a case where a production error resulted in cold solder joints in 5% of the solar ...

When you learn to solder, you are warned about the pitfalls of creating a solder joint. Too much solder, too little solder, cold joints, dry joints, failing to “wet” the joint properly, a plethora of ...

So I am in the market for a new power supply. This weekend while installing another disk in my home PC, my power supply died. No idea what happened but I get nothing on the 5 volt standby lines and ...

The cold heat soldering iron claims to be the world's first cordless, cool-touch soldering tool--it heats up to 800 degrees. In seconds? Does it really work? That's what we wanted to know. So we ...

Every true tech geek worth his or her weight in solder and flux has been foaming at the mouth over a new infomercial on TV. It’s for a device called Cold Heat: a soldering iron that reportedly stays ...

Curling irons, hand warmers, coffee mugs and other consumer products that rely on heat to do their jobs are about to get a makeover thanks to an innovative technology from a tiny Bellevue company.