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Industrial Equipment Manufacturer
Serving the Electronics Industry since 1986
Located in the Heart of Silicon Valley California.
Bed of Nails Testers

Compatibilities:
» Low Cost Data Acquisition Boards
» Genrad 2270/71/72/75/76/8X
» Hewlett/Packard 3060/61/62/65/70/72/75
» Teradyne 800/10/75 & 1800 series
» Checksum, TTI, Testronics, & Other MDA's

PDF Downloads (right click):
Test Fixture Catalog
Build your own Bed of Nails Test Fixture Instructions 31pages 9.8M
A helpfull indexed cover page for printing Build your own Bed of Nails Fixture Kit

Extra Information:
Tips on How to Design for Testability
Designing and Building Bed of Nails type fixture plates
Pneumatic Test Fixtures
Vacume Test Fixtures
Mechanical / Pneumatic Test Fixtures
Portable Hand Actuated Test Fixtures
Low Cost Edge Connector Type Test Fixtures
Precision Functional Testers
Virtual Instrumentation

Other Field Service Equipment:
Portable Field Testers
Laptop Computer Based Testers

Engineering
A substantial portion of company revenues are invested each year in new product development. This investment allows Test Electronics to enhance existing products and develop new products to support continued growth. From the beginning Test Electronics has used advanced technology to offer the customer unsurpassed value and performance. Examples of Test Electronics' technical leadership include.

  • The first rotary air cylinder powered bed of nails type test fixture which multiplies pin force over 10 times at the end of the stroke where it is needed the most.
  • The first anti-sway bar technology employed in test fixtures to prevent plate binding and side wear on test pins. Improving pin and tester life and pin pointing accuracy.
  • The first to use a machined mid plate design to improve pin pointing accuracy above the ratings of the actual pins.
  • The first self aligning micro miniature disk drive flex cable test head developed for Seagate Technology.
  • The first to develop a small bench top lock down clamp type fixture for high volume testing PCMCIA cards. Developed for Intel.

* New Products for 2012 *

Adjustable Press Plate September 2012

TE2600 Adjustable Press Plate Adjustable Press Plate coupled with upgrade able pop out removable test plates and front and rear panel inlays.
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This product is designed to make changes quickly for those who predict many future revisions and updates to their circuit boards. Fixture kits and instructions are also available to those who like to build it themselves.

Rand Fixture Kits July 2012

Bed of Nails Test Fixture Low Cost Low Cost $500 Test Fixture Kits for test development, short production runs or pre-production runs
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Rand test fixtures are a high performance low cost test fixture. Easy to drill and machine. Test plates are compatible with the fully enclosed Clamshell fixtures.

RF Shielded Fixture Kits March 2011

Bed of Nails Test Fixture RF Shielded TE2100RF RF Shielded option
-60dB@4GHz
for the TE1000 and TE2000 clamshell test fixtures
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Your UUT is simultaneously placed inside the fixture and an isolated RF environment ready to run your test all in one simple time saving action!

HV High Voltage Fixture Kits Feb. 2011

Bed of Nails Test Fixture High Voltage TE2100HV High Voltage option
for the TE1000 and TE2000 clamshell style bed of nails test fixtures.
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Shrouded High Voltage finger guards and recessed actuation switch.

TE4000 Adjustable Fixture May 2009

Bed of Nails Test Fixture Adjustable TE4000 Adjustable test fixture. Can be configured to test any board in just a few hours!
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Low cost alternative to a flying prober and a better test development platform for a bed of nails tester. The perfect tool for developing tests and to use as a temporary production tester for evaluating production line test strategy prior to buying permanently drilled test fixtures or while waiting for your drilled fixtures to be delivered.
TE2000 Series Fixtures- Jan 2009
Bed of Nails Test Fixture Edge Press High Access Reduce Board Flex TE2400 Upgrade able pop out removable test plates and front and rear panel inlays.
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This product is designed to make changes easy for those who predict many future revisions and updates to their circuit boards. Fixture kits and instructions are also available to those who like to do it themselves.
TE1400 Fixtures
Bed of Nails Test Fixture Edge Press High Access Reduce Board Flex TE1400 Edge Press Technology for latest high tech extremely densely populated board designs.
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The Test solution for boards jam packed with large high density chip sets mounted on ball grid arrays (BGA). FPGA chips and scale devices on JTAG compatible boards and other high-density packages containing multiple BGA/FPGA devices have no room for test fixture press down rods. The solution is to press down by all that is left which is the edge of the board.

Test Electronics combines a complete electronics lab with a precision CNC machine shop all under one roof. We also stock a large selection of components and purchased parts for quick assembly.

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