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Positioning a Board on a Fixture

Analysing data from custom drilling fixtures to see where folks are positioning their boards on the fixture, and how that corresponds to best practice.

Which Locating Probes?

Customers sometimes ask which type of locating probes to use on a fixture for testing a particular board. In this post we summarise our guidance, and share some data from our custom drilling service.

Custom Fixture Statistics

Our drilling service has been used by customers to create customised test fixtures over five hundred times. In this post we share some statistics.

Pair a Merifix Fixture with the Production Line Tool

We have recently added a new rear insert with cutouts for connectors to suit Blue Clover Devices' Production Line Tool.

New Larger Fixture

We have recently announced a new, larger fixture, the MF700! Twice the width of the MF500, it accommodates boards up to 11 inches long.

Customer Fixture with Many Probes

We sometimes receive photos from customers showing the test fixtures they have put together using Merifix kits. Here are a few photos of a customer fixture that has a large number of test points.

New, larger locating probes

We have recently added a new type of locating probe that suits larger holes.

Improved Clip

We have recently improved the construction of the clip that holds our fixtures closed.

We have recently produced a number of short videos showing how some of our customers are using Merifix fixtures. These videos are very short, around a minute each, and each gives an overview of a particular fixture, highlighting one or more interesting features...

Drilling Service

We are very pleased to now be able to offer a drilling service to users of Merifix fixtures. When you order your fixture you can now have us drill all the holes required for your test points, locating probes and hold down posts, in locations that you specify...