Wilkie Electronics

02/12/2021

Great way to explain electrical basics !

12/11/2021

LATEST MAJOR PCB LAYOUT COMPLETED

Board comprised of 8 layers and approximately 1000 components with various placement restrictions. Completed in just over 3 weeks.

All our boards are routed manually to produce the best layouts in terms of signal integrity, power distribution, signal speed, manufacturability, circuit compactness and of course operation.

02/08/2021

NEWS: Over the last 18 months, investment at European Circuits Limited has continued with the installation of additional equipment in both our PCB Manufacturing Area and PCB Assembly Area.

The investment in excess of £350,000 includes an additional CNC Drill / Routing Machine, additional ATE tester, Solder Paste Inspection System, several new Pick & Place machines and a 3D AOI System. The installation of this equipment improves our efficiency and ensures we are at the leading edge of PCB manufacture and assembly in the UK.

Read more here: https://european-circuits.co.uk/investment-at-ecl-continues/

23/07/2021

As the global chip shortage continues, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company expects the silicon drought to last until next year. Professionals and businesses involved in the electronics supply chain suffer from chip fraud as they look for new ways to secure raw materials.

16/07/2021

The global chip shortage has created a gold mine for bad actors, as dubious sellers buy ads on search engines to lure desperate buyers.

23/01/2021

Interestingly it was designing and producing a solid state replacement for a unit that used a tube called a thyratron back in 1984 that kick-started Wilkie Electronics.

The unit was a configurable bistable module that was used in machines that put crisps into packets for Golden Wonder in Broxburn. The thyratron at that time was obsolete and replacements to keep these machines going were very expensive as they had to be made specially.

The solid state replacement that was designed, built and supplied by Wilkie Electronics was a direct plug in replacement and created the foundations of the business.

Vacuum tubes ruled electronics for several decades and while you might think of them as simple devices analogous to a transistor or FET, there were many special types. We’re all familiar with…

02/10/2020

ELECTRONIC REPAIR SECTION IS NOW CLOSED

We have decided to close our electronic repair services section.

As Wilkie Electronics moves into a new era we have decided to concentrate our time solely on PCB Design and our Research and Development operations which were always the core strengths of the business.

Therefore please do not send any items for repair, but if you do have a major issue you can always call us and we can discuss any options that may be open to you.

Thanks to all our customers who have used this service in the past.

Please note all other services are operational as normal.

19/08/2020

Now upgraded to EasyPC Version 24 for all our schematic capture and PCB layouts.

Easy-PC PCB Design Software is a cost effective, easy-to-use Schematic Capture and PCB Design Software

12/07/2020

Ever wondered how all these tiny components get placed and soldered onto a PCB ?
Here’s a great video showing how it’s done in a highly automated factory in China.

Today we're taking an in-depth factory tour of the PCBWay (https://pcbway.com/strangeparts) PCB assembly factory in Shenzhen, China, to see how the professio...