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Heating elements are a requirement for a diverse number of industries, each needing its own set of performance requirements. Sometimes, the parts and places that need heating need to be bigger or more compact than traditional heating elements. Enter flexible heaters....

At All Flex Solutions, we’re often asked about the cost of rigid flex circuits, namely the reasons behind their higher price point compared to traditional options. For context, a typical hybrid PCB will cost about seven times that of the same design in a hard board,...

Application: What Tooled methods to use when excising parts from a panel. In the flexible circuit and flexible heater industry parts are processed in panel form through the majority of the build process to help keep unit prices low. When it comes time to remove the...

Application: What Tool-Less Methods To Use When Excising Parts From A Panel.   Tool-Less Methods   Laser The most common and the most accurate tool-less method for excising a flexible circuit/heater is laser cutting. Laser cutting is done by an optically...

This article is the third and final part of methods for imaging etches resist. The first part discussed screen printing; the second part discussed traditional photo exposing. The third part discusses laser direct imaging (LDI).The basic process sequence for LDI is...

There are many reasons an end user will specify the copper thickness of a printed circuit. The most obvious reason would be for current carrying capacity, but copper thickness also directly impacts thermal performance and impedance. All these are vital properties...

It is common for many designers and engineers to think of a flexible circuit design as a printed circuit board (PCB) that can bend. While it is true that both PCBs perform the same electrical function, the structural and mechanical differences are significant, and not...

The most common methods for component attachment on flexible circuits and rigid printed circuit boards involve soldering. The basic principles for soldering are the same for both flex and hard board, but soldering components to flexible circuits involves certain...

In most cases, you can trace cracked PCB or trace fracturing back to mechanical stress introduced through design choices, material selection, or packaging constraints that don’t fully account for real operating conditions. When copper in flexible circuits is...