Electronic Product Assembly and Servicing NC II

COC 1 - Assemble Electronics Products

ETCHING - the act or process of making designs or picture on a metal

plate, glass, etc.

1. Enumerates some of the materials use in etching a printed

circuit board (PCB)?

 Ferric Chloride

 Plastic Basin

 Pattern Stencil

 Copper Clad Board

  Etching Resist

 Drill

 Drill Bit

2. What can you suggest to hasten the etching of the PCB?

 Shake the plastic basin while etching. Use warm water

in etching

3. After checking the soldering joints and components you have

noticed that the circuit is not working. What should you do?

 Check if cold solder occurred

4. After checking the solder joints and components you have

noticed a cold solder. What should you do?

 Apply soldering to the subjected solder joint again

5. The lead does not stick to the soldering tip during the
thinning process. What should you do?

 Clean the tip of the soldering iron

6. After testing the assembled project you have noticed that the
product is not working. What are possible causes?

 Cold solder

 Wrong component placement

 Wrong polarity

 Defective components

 Solder bridging

7. After inspecting you noticed a cold solder. What tool are you
going to use? How do you go about it?

 Desoldering tool or pump , apply enough

heat to the soldered joints and while the solder is
melting, use the desoldering pump to suck the melting
solder

8. After inspecting the PCB you have noticed a cracked at the

copper line? What should you do?

 Apply enough solder to bridge the small cracked.

Apply wire if the cracked is long.
 9. After pre-heating soldering iron and before doing soldering
work. What is the first thing you should do?
 Do the thinning process

10. When soldering semiconductor materials like transistors

what precaution can you suggest?

 Do not overheat

 Apply enough heat

 Apply conductive material to the body of the transistor

to absorb during soldering

11. When doing soldering work in European countries what

regulation should you observe?

 Apply leadless or lead-free soldering wire

12. When doing soldering work using lead what safety

precaution are you going to take?

 Use mask to avoid inhaling of fumes

13. You have noticed excess solder on the tip of the iron? . What
are you going to do?

 Get a damp sponge and wipe the tip of the iron

14. When doing soldering work? What are some important
reminders you can suggest?

 No horse playing

 Apply enough heat to soldering joints

 Do the thinning process before putting solder to the

joints

 Use proper soldering tip

 Use proper solder lead wire

COC 2 - Service Consumer Electronics Products and System

1. A short circuit happened. What are you going to do?

 Off the power supply, unplug the circuit

2. The motor rotation of an industrial washing machine became

slower than usual. What would you check?

 Check the belt of the motor. Check the voltage of the

motor. Check the running capacitor

3. The output voltage across a switching type power supply is

higher than its usual value. What would you do?

 Check the regulator circuit

4. Instead of using thicker extension wire. You replaced it with

thinner wire, what would be the effect to the circuit?

 Thinner will show higher resistance, compare to

thicker wire.

 Current will decrease if the circuit is requiring high

current.

 The wire will became hot leading to melting of its

insulation.

5. You notice a blown fuse. What would be the effect if you

replace the fuse with wire? Will the circuit operates?

 The circuit will operate but the circuit is now

unprotected when an over current will occurs.
6. You’ve replaced the resistor with the same value but with
different wattage rating. What would be the effect to the
circuit?

 If the wattage rating is higher than its normal rating,

the circuit will operate normal condition

 if the wattage rating is lower, the resistor will show

heat.

7. A device becomes erratic or intermittent (abnormal) after

years of operation. What are you going to check?

 Bad connections,

 Loose solders parts

 internal or external connections that need to be
cleaned and resealed;

 Check discoloration of components,

 Check for charred (tutong) components due to heat.

8. There is a dead set. What section you would check first?

 Power supply section,

 Power regulator ICs ,diodes and transistors

 High value resistors that open up

 9. When working with the input of the transformer inside the
power supply. What safety precaution are you going to
observe?

 Be careful

 You must be properly insulated when working with

high electrical voltages.

 The input of the transformer is connected at 220 volts

AC which can be harmful or even kill you.

10. What accessories you should not wear during

troubleshooting of power supply?

 Conductive materials like jewelries

11. What should you wear during troubleshooting a power

supply?

 Rubber shoes

 Goggles

 Gloves
COC 3 - Service Industrial Electronic Modules Products and
System

1. The power supply is not producing an output voltage? What

would you do?

 check for the simple stuff first, like the power cables
and main lines before doing internal checking

 Wrong connection of wiring

 Capacitor is not working

2. What if you found out that the cause of the troubles is the
diode in the regulator section of power supply. How are you
going to check a diode if it is not in the circuit?

 Check the diode resistance using an ohmmeter.

3. How are you going to check transformer using an ohmmeter?

 Put the selector switch to the lower setting of an

ohmmeter(X1, X10).

 Connect the probe to both terminals (wires) of the

primary wires of the transformer, it should show
resistance readings.

 Do the same secondary wires or terminals of the

transformer and it should exhibit (show) lower
resistance than the primary wires.
4. Regulator section is not working how would you resolve the
troubles?

 By measuring the input and output of each section or

by applying signal tracing method.

5. The value of the resistor across the output has change; The
resistance became lower than the normal value. What would
be the effect to its output?

 The resistance will draw more current

6. Smoke comes out from the circuit what is the first thing you
must do?

 unplug the device

7. You want to measure an unknown voltage what procedure

are you going to take?

 Put the selector switch to the highest range

8. When measuring the DC quantities what procedure are you

going to observe/take?

 Observe polarity.
 Place the selector switch to DC function

9. When repairing power supplies what procedure are you

going to observe?

 Discharge the stored voltage on the capacitor before

doing repair work.
DESOLDERING is the removal of solder and components from a
circuit board for troubleshooting, repair, replacement, and salvage.