any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
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Hello,
To maintenance electrical panels, we're planning to clean dust which layed on electrical components. Is there any dedicated(special) vacuum cleaner for electrical boards/cards? If there was no dedicated tool for electrical devices, would you please introduce one which is easy for this work?
When cleaning PCB boards, anything I shall espacially noticed?
Thank you all.
To maintenance electrical panels, we're planning to clean dust which layed on electrical components. Is there any dedicated(special) vacuum cleaner for electrical boards/cards? If there was no dedicated tool for electrical devices, would you please introduce one which is easy for this work?
When cleaning PCB boards, anything I shall espacially noticed?
Thank you all.





RE: any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
I prefer to blow them off outside while wearing a respirator, ear protection, and eye protection.
I've never seen a CD or DVD drive survive a high pressure blow off.
If you decide to blow them off stay down around 40psi and touch nothing with the nozzle. Stay back a ways.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
There are special vacuum cleaners for circuit bords. They come with nozzles in non-conductive, but anti-ESD material and sometimes with brushes that help lifting dirt from the boards.
If there are thick layers of dirt, it is a good idea to remove that. Especially if high voltages are involved.
Preventive maintenance may not be a good idea in some cases. There is a very real risk that potentiometer settings, DIP switches and jumpers are changed during the process. That can lead to costly and hard to find problems.
Another risk is that boards get mixed up. That is especially risky in plants with many similar groups of equipment and can lead to very confusing problems with lots of 'interesting' phenomena - including high heat, smoke and flames.
Still another risk is that some board connectors are made to withstand a very low number of matings. There are DIN connectors (the 41612 for instance) where the lowest grade can take around 50 matings. Over the years, and with intense preventive maintenance, the reliability will get very low.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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RE: any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
RE: any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
I will think about the suggestions above.
especially the un-necessary maintanence work.
RE: any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
RE: any recommended vacuum cleaner for PCB boards?
I found one dust removal made by CRC company. Picture is shown below.
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How is it?
Thank you.