| ??? 01/27/04 20:47 Read: times |
#63438 - RE: Burn in procedures Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Is there any tangible benefit in doing the burn in at room temperatures ? I that'd be virtually pointless. The aim of burn-in is to accelerate the infant mortalities (see Erik's "bathtub curve") so that they die during the burn-in, rather than after they've reached a customer. The acceleration is achieved by running at elevated temperature - hence burn-in. Thus "room-temperature burn-in" is an oxymoron. whenever we complete a unit it is left on power with a code that loops through the typical cycle. That's called Functional Test - nothing to do with Burn-In. This has at times showed up faults like insufficient heatsinks; unduly heating ICs / transformers due to some problem ; noise related issues when the unit crashes due to insufficient filter arrangements. As Erik said, they're not faults, they're a Design Flaws Apart from above is it true that when fresh components are left powered they kind of bed-in No. You are confusing Burn-In with Running-In. As already described, the purpose of Burn-In is to accelerate the failure of flawed parts; The purpose of Running-In is to allow parts to bed-in, by giving them a period of gentle operation - quite the opposite of Burn-In! This is applied to mechanical moving parts - I can't think of any application for electronic components? I would be happy to hear from the experts if there are any guidelines for proper burn-in. There is a vast body of literature on all aspects of Reliability, Failure Modes, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, etc, etc, etc I suggest you seek out the appropriate professional body in your territory. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Burn in procedures | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Burn in procedures | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Burn in procedures | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Quality Control? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Burn in procedures - Erik | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Poor components | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Burn in procedures | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Burn in procedures | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Burn in procedures - Andy | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Burn in procedures | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
RE: Burn in procedures - Kai | 01/01/70 00:00 |



