Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) design becomes more and more complicated with thousands of small component in a single board. For PCBA design and quality control engineers, choosing the right test tool can greatly improve the working efficiency and save cost.

01 Fotric 220RD testbench kit

In the electronics industry, PCBA is the "heart" of electronic products. Engineers need to frequently detect short-circuit device, optimize heat dissipation design, and repair the fault. To help facilitate the PCBA inspection, FOTRIC has launched a new product set - FOTRIC 220RD Benchtop Thermal Camera Kit, which uses thermal imaging to quickly identify hotspots and generate a full-field heat map with temperature quantity of each pixel, significantly improving the performance of PCBA engineers.

For example, as for fault detection, a PCBA board has lots of components. If there is any fault such as short circuit, breakdown, and poor soldering, troubleshooting and locating the component require the engineer to have tremendous experience and the process is time-consuming. By the use of FOTRIC 220RD kit, engineers can compare the thermal imaging heat map of the faulty board with the normal working thermal imaging heat map, to easily and quickly locate the components with abnormal heat and temperature, and then conduct targeted tests to significantly improve the diagnosis efficiency.

Fotric AnalyzIR Radiometric Video 220RD 01

One infrared thermal image records an instantaneous temperature at a certain time, however, the failure of the PCBA happens in milliseconds and it is impossible to be captured by a static thermal image. And for some cases, the post-failure thermal imaging heat map is similar to the normal heat map, which is hard for the engineers to make a conclusion. For these cases of PCBA testing, it is necessary to capture the dynamic process of the temperature changes in order to identify the cause of the problem.

The FOTRIC 220RD can be connected to a computer and turned into an online radiometric thermal imager with Fotric AnalyzIR. AnalyzIR is a professional analysis and recording software. It can record a fully radiometric thermal video stream. The radiometric video stores the temperature value of each pixel of any frame, which can be used to analyze the temperature change history plot of any part of interest, to help solve the key problem of PCBA board.

02 Fotric AnalyzIR Radiometric video Temperature history plots

The FOTRIC 220RD can be used as a benchtop setup like a professional laboratory test instrument or fixed mounted to a tripod, releasing both hands for other things simultaneously. FOTRIC 220RD can also be used as a hand-held inspection tool. These flexibilities make FOTRIC 220RD kit a universal test instrument for the inspection of various electronic devices.

03 Fotric 360 degree testbench