by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Epoxy Films, Gaskets, Laser Cutting, Thermal Pads
Unleashing the Potential of LOCTITE® ABLESTIK ECF 3354: NEDC's Preferred Adhesive Film At NEDC, our commitment to offering cutting-edge solutions in thermal management and assembly drives us to provide products that perform beyond expectations. LOCTITE® ABLESTIK ECF...
by Garrett Abare | Epoxy Films, Tech Blog
At NEDC, we distribute a number of electrically conductive adhesive pastes. These electrically conductive pastes are used in bonding dies to circuit boards/microelectronics. They are available for automatic dispensing, and also for hand probing dispensing through...
by Garrett Abare | Thermal Pads
At NEDC, we manufacture many types of thermal interface materials. In cases where thermal materials are not thick enough, or functional enough to provide thermal transfer like some applications may need, graphite fabric over foam is proposed. Why Graphite Fabric for...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Laser Cutting, Waterjet Cutting
NEDC manufactures many laser-cut products. One example of these type products is DRP Reflectors. These reflectors manufactured by Gore help illuminate lights in many aerospace applications. In a cockpit, there are many different lights that are surrounding the pilots....
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, RF Absorbers, Tech Blog, Waterjet Cutting
At NEDC, we manufacture a lot of EMI/RFI shielding products. Its goes with our core product grouping of electronic materials. These foams are impressive for so many reasons. When thinking of a material that can offer X, Y, and Z electrical conductivity, that also is...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Laser Cutting, Waterjet Cutting
The number one media everyone is trying to seal is water. When we hear liquid sealing, our first question is typically, “Well how much water, at what pressures, and how often?”. There are a number of "waterproof" standards. Typically NEDC considers the gasket immersed...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads
NEDC services many accounts with liquid thermal gap fillers. These liquid gap fillers are used in applications where automation, and material cost over high volumes are a concern. What Makes NEDC Different from Other Distributors for Liquid Thermal Gap Fillers? Shelf...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, RF Absorbers, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
At NEDC, we sell a lot of thermal pads. We also sell a lot of die-cut thermal insulators. When I hear of a die-cut thermal insulator, I usually think of a thermal pad that is on the thinner side that has added pressure to achieve its thermal properties. As discussed...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, RF Absorbers, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
It is no secret that NEDC has a thermal pad test machine at its facility in Methuen, MA. We test a lot of thermal pads. We stack them, sort them by apparent thermal conductivity, by bulk thermal conductivity, test with liners, without liners, with PSA, without PSA… In...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
NEDC manufactures many different types of thermal pads. Customers ask us all sorts of technical questions about thermal pads. One question we get all the time is: “My Gap .250’’, can I stack this Thermal Gap Filler Pad that only comes in .125’’ , twice?” Potential...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, RF Absorbers, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
At NEDC, we have a core competency of thermal pads, and RF absorbers. We were wondering the other day, what if there was a product that did both conducting heat out of an application, while also absorbing RF waves, and giving it off as heat. Well, that would be an...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Gaskets, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
At this point in my career, I probably do 5-10 questions, help designing in gaskets, thermal pads, or epoxy films a week. Frankly, a lot of the questions help customers with basic questions about how to lower their price point, but nevertheless some deal with some...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Laser Cutting, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
Recently, we saw some thermal pads that caught our attention. Silicone-Free in industry is important for a number of reasons. In the last 10-20 years, silicone-free thermal pads has become a huge market for the electronic industry. In this blog, we wanted to discuss...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
Customers are looking for the best thermal performance when it comes to thermal interface materials. To get the best thermal performance, in my opinion in most cases, you don’t want to rely on much external pressure to get there. For that reason, we thought we’d write...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
Thermal Pads are the future. I don’t think anyone can overstate that at this point. Electronics are getting smaller, while the power densities obviously increase. Recently, I discovered a material that we really liked. It had a lot of qualities that we often hear...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Laser Cutting, Tech Blog, Waterjet Cutting
NEDC manufactures gaskets of all sorts. There are many different types of silicone rubbers. It came as a surprise to me that we have not discussed transparent/clear, or translucent silicone rubber in the 250 odd blogs we have done. Properties of Clear/Transparent...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
NEDC considers themselves thermal interface pads experts. When you’re discussing the best thermal performance, phase change is the best you are going to get. In this blog, we wanted to highlight a pad that we handle all the time. Properties of EIF1000 aka ISOSTRATE As...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Laser Cutting, Waterjet Cutting
Gaskets are everywhere. I wanted to post a blog that discusses gaskets in everyday life. I recently bought a car, and thought I could discuss several places where I found gaskets during routine maintenance. Applications of Gaskets Oil Plug- On the oil plug, there is...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Epoxy Films, Gaskets, Laser Cutting, RF Absorbers, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
This blog post is all about the image we releasing. In this image, NEDC is showing a die-cut insulator, a thermal pad, an RF absorber, some die-cut gaskets, and an epoxy film that are all present on a typical application that we might service
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Epoxy Films, Gaskets, Laser Cutting
Ablefilm is a staple of the materials we cut at NEDC. in past blogs, we have discussed some of the electrically conductive options such as CF3350, or 5025E Ablefilm Epoxy Film. In a change of topics, we thought we would discuss an electrically insulative epoxy film. ...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
At NEDC, we are always using thermal pads for different customers. Performance for our customers is huge. While I encourage customers to not look at thermal conductivity for a sole indicator of performance, I’d be remiss to say that in this case, the 18 W/m-K is all...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Laser Cutting, RF Absorbers, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
In this episode, NEDC (the Network for Engineering and Device Cooling) conducts a detailed examination of two different types of thermal pads, focusing on how their thermal conductivity affects their performance in real-world applications. The primary distinction...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
At NEDC, some say we are experts in thermal gap pads. We are also experts in liquid gap filler materials. So much in fact, we actually distribute both. One of the materials we like a lot, and will be highlighted in an upcoming video is TGF 3600, or...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Laser Cutting, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
In our video "How do Thermal Interface Pads/Thermal Gap Fillers Work? A Demo!", we explain the function and importance of thermal interface materials (TIMs) in electronic devices. TIMs, such as thermal pads and gap fillers, are used to bridge the gap between...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Most Popular, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
This video shows how a thermal pad actually works with the analogy of cooking.
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Epoxy Films, Laser Cutting, Most Popular, RF Absorbers, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads
NEDC is a converter of frozen epoxy films to make custom preforms for customers to buy. For that reason, NEDC has many frozen films in stock. These include: Ablefilm 5025E Ablefilm 561K Ablefilm CF3350 Ablefilm 566K And others. We wanted to just get it out there on...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Gaskets, RF Absorbers, Thermal Pads
At NEDC, we like to think we are experts in thermal interface materials. Flexible graphite material is an excellent thermally conductive material. In fact, I see a lot of thermal interface pads going in this direction due to its great thermal conductivity, & low...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Gaskets, Waterjet Cutting
Recently, we procured a thermal performance testing machine. I thought it’d be fun to test what EMI/RFI gasketing thermal conductivity is(I’ve been testing everything I can get my paws on, haha). In this test, we decided to measure the thermal conductivity/thermal...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Laser Cutting, Tech Blog, Waterjet Cutting
Applications get smaller, and smaller everyday. As footprints of the electronics we serve get thinner, and lighter i.e electronic signs, tablets, and other peripherals, the gasketing must get thinner to accommodate it. We have customers come in all the time looking...
by Garrett Abare | Die Cutting, Electrical Insulators, Gaskets, Tech Blog, Thermal Pads, Waterjet Cutting
At NEDC, thermal pads are our specialty. Our manufacturing site is in Methuen, MA. Across the pond, in the United Kingdom, there is a reputable thermal pad manufacturer. This manufacturer is called T-Global Technology. They make a number of thermal interface...
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