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I was really surprised high temp solder performed so poorly! After this study I don't really see a situation where it should ever be used?
Supporting evidence can be found at the following link ahead of a formal publishing of the data.
http://profilingguru.com/reflow/measure/thermocouple-attachment-results-are-in/
Brian O'Leary, KIC
I have a link to a conference paper that studied all of these different materials for TC attachment, included in the blog, but it is 10 years old. Currently RIT is re-conducting a similar study to test if our findings are still up-to-date.
Hope to have some results by SMTAI. Great stuff again, love it! Hey you guys ever think about a Podcast? Wouldn't mind taking both recordings and adding to my profiling guru podcast.
Brian O'Leary, KIC