Comment by amelius

Comment by amelius 12 hours ago

4 replies

There is very little empty space in a phone, so conformal coating is practically the same as filling it.

Anyway, I wasn't disagreeing, just reasoning a bit further.

estimator7292 11 hours ago

No, conformal coating and potting are extremely different things done for different reasons.

  • amelius 10 hours ago

    I'm not talking about which methods are being used, I'm talking about which methods could be used. Further, potting, where you let the epoxy drip off, gives you a conformal coating.

    • rowanG077 7 hours ago

      Conformal coating is much less viscous and would leave a layer orders of magnitude thinner then letting potting epoxy drip off. It's not at all comparable.

cjbgkagh 11 hours ago

The point of filling it is to remove the compressible empty space so that large pressure gradients won’t crush it.