I've been doing some reorganizing and noticed I have a collection of PCB holders. I decided to do a quick post on them to spark some discussion around what constitutes a good PCB holder.
This video is a brief overview of the holders I have and how I use them.
What do you use to hold PCBs and what do you think is a good holder system?
My favourites are steel toolmakers vices.
I bought three at a very good price from MSV a couple of years ago - never seen good ones so cheap again 
They do for all sorts of things apart from holding boards.
Recently for holding a coil fo wire for winding machine, as a weight, and today for protecting the bench from test loads.
My laser driver board is putting about 12W into each resistor. I'm quite please with the loss in the switchers, total system input power = 39.3W, output into loads 36.22W = 92% efficiency which includes the power used by the small supervisor processor (about 287mW).
Hottest reading on board is about 39C, about 17 above ambient.
BTW - I did use Blu-tack to hold the connectors while soldering them in !
MK
My favourites are steel toolmakers vices.
I bought three at a very good price from MSV a couple of years ago - never seen good ones so cheap again
They do for all sorts of things apart from holding boards.
Recently for holding a coil fo wire for winding machine, as a weight, and today for protecting the bench from test loads.
My laser driver board is putting about 12W into each resistor. I'm quite please with the loss in the switchers, total system input power = 39.3W, output into loads 36.22W = 92% efficiency which includes the power used by the small supervisor processor (about 287mW).
Hottest reading on board is about 39C, about 17 above ambient.
BTW - I did use Blu-tack to hold the connectors while soldering them in !
MK
