Joe, You might try contacting Educated Design & Development. They supply many different product safety test items to various manufacturers and NRTLs. They have three different kinds of thermocouple tape: Glass Cloth, Kapton, and Teflon. I do know that Kapton is a high temperature tape that I have used in applications up to 600°F (although not for thermocouples). They also sell a thermocouple paste. They should be able to suggest what would be appropriate for your application. Their contact information is below:
Educated Design & Development 2200 Gateway Centre Blvd. Suite 215 Morrisville, NC 27560 Ph: 919-469-9434 Fax: 919-469-5743 www.productsafet.com/prodsafety email: prodsaf...@aol.com Hope you find what you need, Kurt Andrews Compliance Engineer Tracewell Systems, Inc. 567 Enterprise Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 voice: 614.846.6175 toll free: 800.848.4525 fax: 614.846.7791 http://www.tracewellsystems.com/ <http://www.tracewellsystems.com/> -----Original Message----- From: Joe Finlayson [SMTP:jfinlay...@telica.com] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 2:53 PM To: 'NEBS Newsgroup'; 'EMC PSTC' Subject: Thermocouple issues I am in the process of performing a thermal evaluation and am using thermocouples to measure surface temperatures of IC's, etc. I'm finding that the thermocouple tape that I'm using tends to experience a degradation of the adhesive as the temperatures increase (in the 80-100°C range) causing the thermocouples to separate from the surfaces. I'd appreciate any advice that could point to a higher performing tape/adhesive for such an application. Some of the IC's are quite small which doesn't leave much surface area for adhesion and I am using as many as 40 thermocouples per card. Thx, Joe ********************************* <<...>> Joe Finlayson Manager, Compliance Engineering Telica, Inc. 734 Forest Street, Bldg. G, Suite 100 Marlboro, MA 01752 Tel: (508) 480-0909 x212 Fax: (508) 480-0922 Email: jfinlay...@telica.com Web: www.telica.com ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org
