Archive for December, 2021

Advantages of LED PCB Compared with Common Standard PCB

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021

With the development of electronic products, the requirements of circuit boards applied in electronic products are becoming higher and higher. The volume of printed circuit boards is also shrinking exponentially, the assembly density is increasing, and the internal wiring of the line layer is becoming more and more intensive. Compared with PCB, LED PCB with metal core can achieve better heat dissipation effect.

LED PCB material:

First of all, LED PCB space utilization is higher, it takes up relatively small space, but can withstand relatively high-power output.

It is well known that when the power of the circuit board is high, high heat will be generated. If the heat cannot be dispersed in time, it may lead to the shortening of the working life of LED products, and the more serious consequence is the safety problem of the circuit board due to overheating.

Therefore, in order to make the LED lighting system longer life, it is generally used to print the circuit board with metal core, and the characteristics of the metal core is relatively large density, strong thermal conductivity, conducive to heat dissipation effect.

LED PCB board design:

The LED PCB is also unique in that its components are located on the surface, rather than through holes, because the metal core at the bottom dissipates heat more quickly.

LED PCB surface mounting

Some LED printed circuit boards have through-holes, especially multilayer metal core printed circuit PCB. Because the number of layers of the circuit board increases, the circuit layout is more complex, heat is more difficult to emit, and the existence of the through hole is to achieve faster heat dissipation. The drilling holes on the LED board are mounting holes, which are usually larger than the standard PCB through holes.

LED PCB solder mask color:

In addition, LED printed circuit board solder resistance layer color is also its characteristics.

The color of solder resistance layer on the LED printed circuit board is usually white, while the PCB board has a series of colors such as black, green and red and so on. This is also determined by the characteristics of LED boards in practical applications. Since LEDPCB board is usually used as backlight board, photosensitive solar ink is usually coated on the surface of the circuit board. White Taiyo Solder mask can achieve high temperature resistance, not easy to change color, high reflectivity, so as to achieve the reflection effect of lighting and better lighting effect.

LED PCB

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Via Tented, Via Filled & Via Plugged

Monday, December 20th, 2021

Via Tented, Via Filled (filled with solder mask) & Via Plugged (Via In Pad – Conductive material or Non-Conductive material)

One of the most confused idea during our PCB design is the difference between Via Tenting, Via Filling and Via Plugging. Designers often get mixed up between them and fail to take full advantage of the process.

Today, let us discuss them, so that you can be confident in specifying your design requirements clearly when submitting PCB files to Best Technology before final manufacturing.

Via Tented

What is via?

A plated through hole (PTH) in a Printed Circuit Board that is used to provide electrical connection between a trace on one layer of the Printed Circuit Board to a trace on another layer. Since it is not used to mount component leads, it is generally a small hole and pad diameter.

A. Three methods and definitions of via processing

There are three methods for via processing: via hole opening & via hole cover oil & via hole plug oil

1. Through hole opening window: it is the tin on the solder ring of the via (the tin is exposed like a plug-in pad). The window is usually used to debug the measurement signal. The disadvantage is that it is easy to cause a short circuit.

2. Through hole cover oil: it is the welding ring of the through hole (via) covered with solder mask ink

3. Through hole plugging oil: refers to plugging the hole with ink.

Secondly, the inspection standards for a processing method

1. Through-hole opening window is like a plug-in pad, and the window is sprayed with tin. Inspection standard: tin can be tinned, and tin can be easily tinned.

2. The inspection standard of the via hole cover oil: it is not easy to tin in the patch.

3. Inspection criteria for via plug oil: First, it must be opaque, and it must be covered and blocked by ink.

Finally, we are talk for comparison and distinction between via hole cover oil and via hole plug oil:

1. Via plug oil This process is an important supplement to via plug oil, so generally high-quality boards will require via plug oil. And often many engineers who are just entering the industry are stupid and unclear. So how do you distinguish between the two?

2. The requirement of via hole cover oil is that the ring of the via hole must be covered with ink. The emphasis is to ensure the thickness and coverage of the ink on the edge of the hole. The key control is that the ring does not accept false copper exposure and orifice oil. Thin

3. Through hole plugging oil is the production of plug holes with ink inside the holes of the through holes. The emphasis is on the quality and density of the plug holes. After the holes are plugged, no light can be transmitted.

4. The method of plugging the via hole is to first fill the via hole with ink to block the via hole, so that the ink on the solder mask will not flow into the via hole, so as to achieve the situation that the via hole does not appear yellow. (If you have strict requirements and place an order for via hole cover oil, the cover oil is usually not full or yellowish, you can change it to via hole plug oil later). In addition, the smaller the vias are, the easier it is to plug them. The vias of the fortress oil are not easy to be too large (the circuit board proofing plugging oil is directly plugged with ink, and the printing tape is plugged. It is recommended that the vias that need to be plugged are designed to be <0.5mm. This is also free; no additional money is required).

If you have more question Via Tented, Via Filled& Via Plugged, warmly welcomed to contact Best Tech for more FR4 design service.

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What is PI heating film?

Monday, December 20th, 2021

With people’s pursuit of high-quality life, now many electronics products are designed including heating film. It is kind of emerging material in the current industrial development.

The heating film is divided into different temperature resistance grades due to the different materials, and it can be divided into different names due to the different internal heating mechanisms.

Today let us mainly to introduce the Flex heating film, which conductor is made of Polyimide film (PI), people also called it PI heating film, Kapton Polyimide Heater, Kapton heating film or Polyimide Heating Plate.

Flexible PI Heating Film is designed with various resistance circuits according to the customer‘s request, which use Polyimide film (PI film) as the outer insulator, and use metal foil as the inner conductive heating element, to laminate both materials together by high temperature and high pressure.

You can know more details about the Flex heating film when you check below stack up and photos.

As Polyimide Heater is kind of surface heating material, which forms the maximum heat conduction surface with the heated body, so such heating method has very good conductivity, and with the characteristic of fast heating and low thermal inertia

It can withstand 300 ℃ high temperature in the short term, and work below 160 ℃ in the long term.

In other hand, the thickness of the flex heating film is between 0.13-0.3mm, which makes such product very flexible and light, and occupies very small space on the entire product design. So Flex heater is very good for using on the situations where space and weight are limited, or where the heater is exposed to vacuum, radiation, oil or certain chemical substances.

Here the list for where the Flex heater mainly used in:

1. Heating of household appliances

2. Under cold environmental conditions, make the instrument reach the designed working temperature, such as camera defogging heating.

3. Vacuum heating and baking field

4. Car rearview mirror defrosting, radar snow removal, defrosting, etc.

5. Medical care and beauty equipment industry

The following are some products which includes the flexible Polyimide Heater inside.

Believe it will supply a good reference for you to know this product.

So, as you can see that the product with Flex heating improve highly for our life quality.  Our company has more than 15 years experiencing on manufacturing Flex PCB and Flexible heating film, if you are interesting to know more manufacturing details about PI heating film, you are welcome to contact us.

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What is LED Thermal Management?

Monday, December 20th, 2021

LED lighting (Light Emitting Diodes) can provide more lumens per watt than incandescent bulbs, and the amount of light emitted does not depend on the size or shape of the bulb. It has significantly smaller footprint, higher efficiencies and lasts a long time.

One of the big challenges of LED lighting is LED Thermal Management, since around 70% of the electricity used by an LED becomes heat, and LEDs work best around room temperature, if the heat is not managed with some sort of thermal management solution, it can result in reduced efficiency in the LED, shorten the life of the bulb itself, and possibly causing damage to other components near it. In this context one of the best places to start with would be thermal management within the Metal Core PCB.

Thermal Management in MCPCB

If you are using LED power, there are chances that you would encounter problem at or above 80 watts. For example if you are considering application like the street lighting which might require up to 150 watts per lamp, led thermal resistance at such high power point would be a cardinal concern.

MCPCB can be created using a wide range of heat-dissipating materials without changing the LED component. From copper which offers better thermal conductivity to aluminum which is cheaper to specialized MCPCB using coated steel, ceramics or many other options. To address the LED thermal resistance issues and achieve optimum thermal management using LED, external heat sinks can also be used. This facilitates dissipation of exceptionally large amount of heat.

In fact on an average MCPCBs have several different shapes and degrees of heat dissipation profile. However the most challenging ones are no doubt the types in which the LED applications have to be stored in airtight enclosure to protect from the environment around. Thermal management in this case could be anything from air-to-air heat exchangers to using internal fans to even heat transfer via a series of conduction and convection alternatives.

Thermal Management of MCPCB

Thermal management is important for the electronic systems to encompass the processes along with the technologies.The main objective of thermal management is to ensure the temperature remains consistent for the functional and absolute maximum limits. The temperature exceeding the limit may cause destruction physically or may lead to a system failure. Therefore, MCPCB is essential because efficient thermal management increases the feasibility, enhances durability, and reduces the failure rates.

It also enables the high circuit density design for the users. Basically, thermal conductivity is a specific material from a property with the ability to conduct proper heat management as soon as it enters into the system. The conventional PCB share less thermal conductivity and also not capable enough to meet the increased demand for the thermal constraint required for high power dissipation PCB. The best alternative to solve this problem is the Metal Core Printed Circuit Board.

If you have any questions about MCPCB, welcome to contact Best Technology.

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Does ceramic PCB is suitable for SMT

Monday, December 20th, 2021

Ceramic PCB is becoming more and more popular due to ceramic PCB with a lot of advantageous performance.

  1. For example, ceramic PCB with good anti-abrasive function because with palladium, the more palladium, anti-abrasive function is better.
  • Ceramic PCB is very good for withstanding high and low temperature too, -55 degree to 850 degrees.
  • Ceramic PCB with great heat dissipation function, ceramic PCB can conduct the heat away very fast and keep the working temperature stable.
  • Ceramic PCB with great heat dissipation function, the thermal conductivity is much better than other PCB, it is very good for high power LED lighting application.

All the ceramic PCB is suitable for SMT, but the SMT is a different from other PCBs, need to control the temperature strictly, and also need to pay high attention to hand it, because ceramic PCB is very fragile, it can be broken very easily.

Please contact sales@bestpcbs.com to know more about ceramic PCB with SMT.

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