Polar Instruments' Flying-Probe Test System

Dec. 6, 2021

The GRS 550 from Polar Instruments is designed as a repair test system, helping you repair and reclaim expensive boards with hard-to-find faults that would otherwise be scrapped.

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In this video, an engineer from Polar Instruments discusses the company's GRS 550, designed as a repair test system. It helps you repair and reclaim expensive boards with hard-to-find faults that would otherwise be scrapped. The GRS is programmed from CAD data, and troubleshooting programs can be developed in a fraction of the time and cost of a fixture-based solution. Over 20 popular CAD formats are supported.

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An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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