TMA.  direct measure of Tg, CTE those are critical for reliability  
and material identification.  that is assume for electronic   
application (packaging).
second runner off: DSC, for Tg and exotherm of polymeric material  
(looking for degradation or Tm, and you might be able to use good  
balance to measure the left over  material - sort of Tga with some  
kind of temp info).
my 1.4 cents.
      jk
On Sep 19, 2016, at 5:04 PM, Bev Christian wrote:

> TechNetters,
> If you had the choice of getting ONE of:
> 1) TMA
> 2) DMA
> 3) DSC
>
> And $ was not an issue, which would you chose and WHY?  Please, no "it
> depends" answers and no, you can't throw TGA into the mix.
>
> Regards,
> Bev