Electronics Lab

We are the merged electronics laboratory of the PI, HISKP and FTD. We are your contact for electronic tasks and questions of all kinds.

You can find us in the FTD on the second floor in room 1.041.
For those who do not have access to the FTD, please call to make an appointment before visiting.
Appointments can usually be made for the same day.

Opening hours

Monday- Thursday
8am - 4pm
Friday
8am - 1pm

Main Tasks

Assemble Circuit Boards

We assemble boards mainly with the fully automatic placement machine in our placement room.
For this purpose, solder paste is applied to the solder pads with a squeegee through a template, the board is placed in the automatic machine and it places the components fully automatically.
Parts that cannot be assembled with the automatic machine are subsequently assembled by hand.
We can assemble SMD components up to a size of 0201.

Equipment Repairs

One of the main tasks of the e-Laboratory is the repair and maintenance of electronic devices of all kinds. This includes self-made devices as well as high-quality measuring and testing devices of all current manufacturers. Whether an equipment repair is worthwhile or whether a new acquisition is more profitable is decided by our employees in consultation with the members of the working groups. As an alternative to in-house repairs, defective equipment can also be sent to the technical service of the respective manufacturer for a cost estimate. Here the profitability must always be considered. We will be happy to advise you!

Design Circuit Boards

We support you in the development of electronic circuit boards. No matter which tasks we take over. It is always a good idea to involve us in the development, especially if the assembly is also to be done by our side. We offer further support in the following areas:

Design rules creation
Adaptation of production files to other manufacturing processes
Completion of component libraries
BOM management
Impedance calculation for the layer stack
Compliance with manufacturing specifications
Project storage (in progress)

Stock Keeping

Many components can be found in the e-Laboratory warehouse.
There are components like resistors, capacitors or transistors each in wired design, but many also in SMD design.
The stock also gives leads and wires of all kinds, empty housings with accessories, Wago terminals and much more.
If you need something, feel free to call or come by and we'll see if we have it there. Since a large part of the parts are now managed in a database, we know at a glance how many parts are available.
If something is not available, an order is possible, in the best case, to the next day.

Electronic Tests

Employees of the e-Laboratory are regularly out and about testing all portable, electronic devices for safety in accordance with DIN VDE 0701-0702. Portable means that the device has a plug that can be plugged into a socket and is not directly connected to the mains.
You are also welcome to come by our lab with your device at any time and we will test it there.
When we have repaired devices, you will get them back freshly tested.
You can tell if a device needs to be tested by a colored round sticker with a year and month on it. This is the latest date on which the device must be inspected again.
If there is no sticker on the device, it has never been tested. In this case, a test must be made up.
The group leaders are responsible for ensuring that all devices on their premises are tested.

New Device Construction

Just as in the case of equipment repair, the focus is also on profitability in the case of new equipment development. If the purchase price and the technical requirements justify in-house development, the work of the electronics laboratory begins. In coordination with the work groups, circuit boards are developed, housings are selected, drawings are created and the necessary components are collected through component research. In cooperation with the central workshop, the mechanical components are manufactured and "married" with the electronic components. This cooperation results in electronic measuring or supply devices manufactured completely according to requirements.