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