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constructive critic on my plcc adapter PCB
Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ?
used jpg to keep size down thats why colors/img look a bit yuko. I am interested in comments on layout/design and if the approach is bad good etc. and well anything you experienced people can offer an amateur hobbyist like myself. top is red bottom green round dip pin through pads are .075" (.029" hole) round through via pads are .056" (.020" hole) square pads bottom .65" x .010" plcc pads are standard smt thanks for any advice, rob --------------------- |
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robb wrote: round dip pin through pads are .075" (.029" hole) They don't look much like 75 thou/mil to me. Graham |
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For a hobbies, I would put the Vias outside the IC package area. This way the PLCC will lay flat once you connect the vias
with 30awg wire. Cheers "robb" wrote in message ... Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? used jpg to keep size down thats why colors/img look a bit yuko. I am interested in comments on layout/design and if the approach is bad good etc. and well anything you experienced people can offer an amateur hobbyist like myself. top is red bottom green round dip pin through pads are .075" (.029" hole) round through via pads are .056" (.020" hole) square pads bottom .65" x .010" plcc pads are standard smt thanks for any advice, rob --------------------- |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:28:23 -0400, robb wrote:
Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? used jpg to keep size down thats why colors/img look a bit yuko. I am interested in comments on layout/design and if the approach is bad good etc. and well anything you experienced people can offer an amateur hobbyist like myself. top is red bottom green round dip pin through pads are .075" (.029" hole) round through via pads are .056" (.020" hole) square pads bottom .65" x .010" plcc pads are standard smt Other than moving the vias out from under the chip as Martin suggested, I only have one suggestion - round the corners a little bit; the inside can have a hot spot and the sharp corner doesn't really accomplish anything, but could be a delamination stress point. Cheers! Rich |
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"Rich Grise" wrote in message news On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:28:23 -0400, robb wrote: Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? Other than moving the vias out from under the chip as Martin suggested, I only have one suggestion - round the corners a little bit; the inside can have a hot spot and the sharp corner doesn't really accomplish anything, but could be a delamination stress point. thanks rich rob |
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"robb" wrote: Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? For a given board, the copper on it is "free". Plus, the less copper you are etching off, the faster it gets done. On the "green side" you might want to look at any pins that are at ground potential, and connect those to a flood covering most of the board area, rather than etching off most of the board area. Power also works, and on the red side you might do ground some places, power other places, to fill in. Often a good idea to toss in a few capacitors between power and ground while you are at it. I much prefer oval pads .vs. round - easier to solder to with dip pins. Other than a rectangular pin 1, I prefer rounded (or 45 degree) corners on all pads and traces. Anyplace where a fatter trace fits fine, I use a fatter trace (without cutting trace-to-trace spacing down to a fussy and hard to work with number). Some corner of the etch should have a dot or angle mark to tell you how the PLCC is supposed to mount - either in the space under it, or outside of it. Same idea and reason as the "different pin 1 convention" you are following for DIPs - anything that costs essentially nothing and helps you put it together correctly is a good thing. If you move the vias out as others suggest, you might fill the middle under the PLCC - but leave a generous gap to avoid problems with the contact pads. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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"Ecnerwal" wrote in message ... In article , "robb" wrote: Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? For a given board, the copper on it is "free". Plus, the less copper you are etching off, the faster it gets done. On the "green side" you might want to look at any pins that are at ground potential, and connect those to a flood covering most of the board area, rather than etching off most of the board area. Power also works, and on the red side you might do ground some places, power other places, to fill in. Often a good idea to toss in a few capacitors between power and ground while you are at it. Thanks wren lace , Is there an operational/safety benefit to flooding empty space with ground copper ? and how does one choose the value for the capacitors between ground and power ? as that is a bit out my scope thanks for reply and suggestions, rob |
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"robb" wrote: Is there an operational/safety benefit to flooding empty space with ground copper ? Operationally it can reduce noise pickup and/or radiation. It does nothing much for safety. and how does one choose the value for the capacitors between ground and power ? as that is a bit out my scope A: what have you got in the junk box - use it. B: 0.1uF or 0.22 uF are often good values if parts need to be bought. Place as close to the PLCC power/ground inputs as possible. When you get into high-speed stuff, I'll defer to the folks that are doing that - there have been some spirited discussions about bypassing in the past few months, with adherents of various rules-of-thumb valiantly proposing myriad "One True Path" options. I was personally brought up in the 10uF and 0.1uF in parallel rule-of-thumb, but I know it's a rule-of-thumb, not a religion or "One True Path" or even a set of values modeled to provide the best possible performance. For most digital stuff, a 0.1uF from each chip's power to its ground, as close to the chip as possible, is another rule-of-thumb (for a while you could get DIP chip sockets which had those built-in for default power/ground locations for logic - I don't know if they are still available, less of an issue with SMT parts and the lack of reliability that sockets provide in the long run. SMT offers the ability to park the capacitor on the backside of the board right under the chip, which was "not done" when through hole components were only mounted on one side of the board, so they could be wave soldered.) -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:28:23 -0400, "robb" wrote:
Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? used jpg to keep size down thats why colors/img look a bit yuko. I am interested in comments on layout/design and if the approach is bad good etc. and well anything you experienced people can offer an amateur hobbyist like myself. top is red bottom green round dip pin through pads are .075" (.029" hole) round through via pads are .056" (.020" hole) square pads bottom .65" x .010" plcc pads are standard smt thanks for any advice, rob --------------------- Looks OK. You might consider making provision for some close-in power-ground bypass caps, to fixed pins or jumperable, since you'll be lengthening the plcc leads a lot. John |
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robb wrote:
Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? used jpg to keep size down thats why colors/img look a bit yuko. I am interested in comments on layout/design and if the approach is bad good etc. and well anything you experienced people can offer an amateur hobbyist like myself. top is red bottom green round dip pin through pads are .075" (.029" hole) round through via pads are .056" (.020" hole) square pads bottom .65" x .010" plcc pads are standard smt I'll second John's and Rich's comments. Besides rounding you might want to consider flaring the traces into the pin header vias. I think layouters call that "drop". That way there could be less stress fractures. Also, put unconnected copper markers at the four corners and mark where pin 1 goes. Helps with alignment. Especially when tired it can easily happen that a chip is plopped onto it the wrong way (usually followed by a major expletive). Oh, and add your name, logo, whatever and if you want to be extra good a part number for this board plus a blank assembly number field large enough to write on with a Sharpie. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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Joerg wrote: I'll second John's and Rich's comments. Besides rounding you might want to consider flaring the traces into the pin header vias. I think layouters call that "drop". That way there could be less stress fractures. Teardrop. It's astonishing how many good practices of old have been lost as a result of CAD layout. There was once a Marconi (Instruments) IIRC guide to pcb layout from the early days of tape-up. It covered all these subtleties. I've seen excerpts but never the actual publication. I HAVE seen foil fractures where a thin trace enters a pad resulting from rough handling, rework or whatever. Tear drops reduce such stresses hugely. It's basic engineering. PADS IIRC is the only package I've seen that has a teardrop function built in as standard. Graham |
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... PADS IIRC is the only package I've seen that has a teardrop function built in as standard. Pulsonix has teardrop support in any of the configurations that include PCB support. Years ago when I was using P-CAD it could do them as well, but it actually consisted of running a little standalone utility program that added them as "drawn copper" next to each pad. Hence, you only wanted to do it as the last step before fabrication! (Whereas Pulsonix and PADS of course both have teardrops as "native" objects, not just drawn copper.) |
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Eeyore wrote:
Joerg wrote: I'll second John's and Rich's comments. Besides rounding you might want to consider flaring the traces into the pin header vias. I think layouters call that "drop". That way there could be less stress fractures. Teardrop. It's astonishing how many good practices of old have been lost as a result of CAD layout. There was once a Marconi (Instruments) IIRC guide to pcb layout from the early days of tape-up. It covered all these subtleties. I've seen excerpts but never the actual publication. I HAVE seen foil fractures where a thin trace enters a pad resulting from rough handling, rework or whatever. Tear drops reduce such stresses hugely. It's basic engineering. PADS IIRC is the only package I've seen that has a teardrop function built in as standard. Eagle can do that as well AFAIK. But I never do layouts myself. A lot of layout is common-sense and it gets violated a lot. Why on earth everyone thinks right angle looks more cool that round traces I will never understand. And then the stuff breaks. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:26 GMT, Joerg
wrote: Eeyore wrote: Joerg wrote: I'll second John's and Rich's comments. Besides rounding you might want to consider flaring the traces into the pin header vias. I think layouters call that "drop". That way there could be less stress fractures. Teardrop. It's astonishing how many good practices of old have been lost as a result of CAD layout. There was once a Marconi (Instruments) IIRC guide to pcb layout from the early days of tape-up. It covered all these subtleties. I've seen excerpts but never the actual publication. I HAVE seen foil fractures where a thin trace enters a pad resulting from rough handling, rework or whatever. Tear drops reduce such stresses hugely. It's basic engineering. PADS IIRC is the only package I've seen that has a teardrop function built in as standard. Eagle can do that as well AFAIK. But I never do layouts myself. A lot of layout is common-sense and it gets violated a lot. Why on earth everyone thinks right angle looks more cool that round traces I will never understand. And then the stuff breaks. Do you think a right-angle trace is more likely to break than a curve or bevel? I can't see why. Except maybe for high voltages, or 5+ GHz stuff, I don't think it matters. John |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:26 GMT, Joerg A lot of layout is common-sense and it gets violated a lot. Why on earth everyone thinks right angle looks more cool that round traces I will never understand. And then the stuff breaks. Do you think a right-angle trace is more likely to break than a curve or bevel? I can't see why. A long time ago, the board houses used to warn against right angle traces because with a solder plate resist they would over etch on the inside of the right angle. Now days the pitches are so fine that everyone is using organic resists, for etching, and the insides of right angles under etch if anything, so it really shouldn't matter. -Chuck |
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"John Larkin" ... Do you think a right-angle trace is more likely to break than a curve or bevel? I can't see why. Some time before 1980 I did some PCB layout for the European IRAS satellite. In those days the minimum inside curvature of a bend was specified (AFAIR about 0.7 mm inside, mo problem since we taped the layout at 4x or 8x scale): the reason given was better behaviour with thermal cycling. Outside had to follow the inside with the track width, no sharp points allowed. Arie de Muynck. |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:26 GMT, Joerg wrote: Eeyore wrote: Joerg wrote: I'll second John's and Rich's comments. Besides rounding you might want to consider flaring the traces into the pin header vias. I think layouters call that "drop". That way there could be less stress fractures. Teardrop. It's astonishing how many good practices of old have been lost as a result of CAD layout. There was once a Marconi (Instruments) IIRC guide to pcb layout from the early days of tape-up. It covered all these subtleties. I've seen excerpts but never the actual publication. I HAVE seen foil fractures where a thin trace enters a pad resulting from rough handling, rework or whatever. Tear drops reduce such stresses hugely. It's basic engineering. PADS IIRC is the only package I've seen that has a teardrop function built in as standard. Eagle can do that as well AFAIK. But I never do layouts myself. A lot of layout is common-sense and it gets violated a lot. Why on earth everyone thinks right angle looks more cool that round traces I will never understand. And then the stuff breaks. Do you think a right-angle trace is more likely to break than a curve or bevel? I can't see why. It offers a distinct starting point for a hair crack and as Arie pointed out is not allowed in some hi-rel designs. This effect is most pronounced on flex where I never allow right angles. Or any angle for that matter, it all has to be curved. I have seen too many flex failures and nearly all boiled down to hair cracks at trace bends or where tear-drop hadn't been used. Except maybe for high voltages, or 5+ GHz stuff, I don't think it matters. Agree, except for analog stuff where the cutoff can be much lower. In the digital world a reflection 40dB down makes no difference but in Radar apps it can matter. My take on this is, why not do properly rounded traces if there is zero cost difference and any CAD SW worth its salt can do that automatically? Strangely, in the olden days folks shunned round traces. Not because CAD program couldn't do them but because they did not want their design to look hand-made. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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John Larkin wrote: Do you think a right-angle trace is more likely to break than a curve or bevel? I can't see why. Concentration of mechanical stress AIUI. Graham |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:26 +0000, Joerg wrote:
Eeyore wrote: Joerg wrote: I'll second John's and Rich's comments. Besides rounding you might want to consider flaring the traces into the pin header vias. I think layouters call that "drop". That way there could be less stress fractures. Teardrop. It's astonishing how many good practices of old have been lost as a result of CAD layout. There was once a Marconi (Instruments) IIRC guide to pcb layout from the early days of tape-up. It covered all these subtleties. I've seen excerpts but never the actual publication. I HAVE seen foil fractures where a thin trace enters a pad resulting from rough handling, rework or whatever. Tear drops reduce such stresses hugely. It's basic engineering. PADS IIRC is the only package I've seen that has a teardrop function built in as standard. Eagle can do that as well AFAIK. But I never do layouts myself. A lot of layout is common-sense and it gets violated a lot. Why on earth everyone thinks right angle looks more cool that round traces I will never understand. And then the stuff breaks. Right angles are much more "modern" - like chrome-and-glass furniture as opposed to art deco. ;-) They're also easier to tape up. ;-) Cheers! Rich |
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Rich Grise wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:26 +0000, Joerg wrote: Eeyore wrote: Joerg wrote: I'll second John's and Rich's comments. Besides rounding you might want to consider flaring the traces into the pin header vias. I think layouters call that "drop". That way there could be less stress fractures. Teardrop. It's astonishing how many good practices of old have been lost as a result of CAD layout. There was once a Marconi (Instruments) IIRC guide to pcb layout from the early days of tape-up. It covered all these subtleties. I've seen excerpts but never the actual publication. I HAVE seen foil fractures where a thin trace enters a pad resulting from rough handling, rework or whatever. Tear drops reduce such stresses hugely. It's basic engineering. PADS IIRC is the only package I've seen that has a teardrop function built in as standard. Eagle can do that as well AFAIK. But I never do layouts myself. A lot of layout is common-sense and it gets violated a lot. Why on earth everyone thinks right angle looks more cool that round traces I will never understand. And then the stuff breaks. Right angles are much more "modern" - like chrome-and-glass furniture as opposed to art deco. ;-) They're also easier to tape up. ;-) I've always belonged to the group of round-tapers ;-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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"Joerg" wrote in message et... robb wrote: Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? Oh, and add your name, logo, whatever and if you want to be extra good a part number for this board plus a blank assembly number field large enough to write on with a Sharpie. -- Thanks Joerg, for all the suggestions, i had not even considered the logo/name/partno but sounds like a good thing to do, thanks, rob |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:28:23 -0400, "robb" wrote:
Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? used jpg to keep size down thats why colors/img look a bit yuko. I am interested in comments on layout/design and if the approach is bad good etc. and well anything you experienced people can offer an amateur hobbyist like myself. top is red bottom green round dip pin through pads are .075" (.029" hole) round through via pads are .056" (.020" hole) square pads bottom .65" x .010" plcc pads are standard smt thanks for any advice, rob --------------------- Here's a similar thing. A 4M sram chip is soldered on top, and it plugs into an EPROM socket, so we can load and test code during development. One extra pin picks up the uP /WRITE line, so we can write to the ram, and one other pin lets us pick up +5 or +3.3 for power. All that stuff about stress and angles and teardrops is pretty silly, at least if you do plated-through holes. John |
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"John Larkin" wrote in message ... On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:28:23 -0400, "robb" wrote: Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? Here's a similar thing. A 4M sram chip is soldered on top, and it plugs into an EPROM socket, so we can load and test code during development. One extra pin picks up the uP /WRITE line, so we can write to the ram, and one other pin lets us pick up +5 or +3.3 for power. All that stuff about stress and angles and teardrops is pretty silly, at least if you do plated-through holes. Thanks John, for all the help and taking time to paste an example i really appreciate the suggestions everyone has made. Probaby no plated through holes this go around, though making a copper electro-plating tank for through holes sounds like fun. I have asked other this as well, how do i choose a capacitor value for the bypass capacitors, and is there a best location to place this. I also noticed some resitors in your example ? what purpose do they serve and would i want something similar ? thanks again for the helpful advice i hope to post a redo shortly. One thing i di not quite understand was the point about moving vias out from under the chip ? seems like alot of unused space and a great place to dump the vias if you want to keep the overall package dimensions down ?? thanks again for all the help, rob |
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:15:33 -0400, "robb" wrote:
"John Larkin" wrote in message ... On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:28:23 -0400, "robb" wrote: Looking for constructive criticism on my plcc/dip adapter ? Here's a similar thing. A 4M sram chip is soldered on top, and it plugs into an EPROM socket, so we can load and test code during development. One extra pin picks up the uP /WRITE line, so we can write to the ram, and one other pin lets us pick up +5 or +3.3 for power. All that stuff about stress and angles and teardrops is pretty silly, at least if you do plated-through holes. Thanks John, for all the help and taking time to paste an example i really appreciate the suggestions everyone has made. Probaby no plated through holes this go around, though making a copper electro-plating tank for through holes sounds like fun. If you don't plate, put big pads on both sides, and solder on both sides. That will help prevent ripping pads off. The plating thing is very nasty. Just buy plated-thru boards from a cheapie proto shop, APCircuits or such. I have asked other this as well, how do i choose a capacitor value for the bypass capacitors, and is there a best location to place this. 0.1 uF ceramic usually works. Further discussion would start a religious war. Ignore anything else that anyone says. Place it close to the power pin(s) of the chip, and pour as much ground as you can, which is what my board does. I also noticed some resitors in your example ? what purpose do they serve and would i want something similar ? Those are zero-ohm jumper sites, so we can power the sram from +5 (the regular pin) or from the 3.3 volt oddball pin. So far, we've just used +5, but that may change some day. thanks again for the helpful advice i hope to post a redo shortly. One thing i di not quite understand was the point about moving vias out from under the chip ? seems like alot of unused space and a great place to dump the vias if you want to keep the overall package dimensions down ?? With plated holes, the vias are flat. If you use wire jumper vias, you have to deal with the solder bumps on top, under the chip, which is probably no big deal. What sort of PLCC chips will you be using? What's the overall circuit going to do? John |
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robb wrote:
.... for all the help and taking time to paste an example i really appreciate the suggestions everyone has made. Probaby no plated through holes this go around, though making a copper electro-plating tank for through holes sounds like fun. Well, it gets old after a while. I used to do all aspects of PCB manufacture when I worked for a PCB house as a teenager. The plate through tank is filled with a saturated solution of copper sulfate. The solution is made by filling the tank with a sulfuric acid solution, about the same concentration as in a car battery. The copper anodes are added until the solution stops eating them away. The plate through tank needs to be highly agitated to keep the solution in the holes very fresh. So, imagine a tank full of concentrated sulfuric acid at a roiling boil. First, you drill all of the holes that are to be plated. Then you scrub the board so that the copper is free of any oxide, or fingerprints and give it a bath in a strong lye solution to remove oils. The next step is to seed the holes in the board with an electroless copper plating solution. Metal doesn't like to plate on insulation, and it really doesn't like to plate in holes, so it needs the thin copper film to help it start. Then the boards get clamped firmly to a copper cathode bar, and get inserted into the copper plating tank. Because the metal doesn't like to plate into holes, you need to use an excessively high current density, and high agitation. The tank looks like it is at a roiling boil. The plating "rectifiers" are 0 to 6V, 300A power supplies. When the boards are done, the corners will have mossy copper growing from them, and the surface finish will be uneven, so the board needs to be sanded down to a nice flat finish. This is done with a brush machine that does both sides at the same time. Be careful not to remove too much copper! Next, the boards get silk screened with resist and go into the solder plating tank. When they are done there, the silk screen resist is removed (trichlor was the old way), and they are tossed into the etching tank, where the solder plating acting as the resist. After they are rinsed, and dried, they go into a hot bath of peanut oil where the solder is "reflowed" which basically means the plating of tin/lead is melted into an actual alloy. Then comes more trichlor, and the final drilling, and then milling to shape. -Chuck |
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"Chuck Harris" wrote in message
Then the boards get clamped firmly to a copper cathode bar, and get inserted into the copper plating tank. Because the metal doesn't like to plate into holes, you need to use an excessively high current density, and high agitation. The tank looks like it is at a roiling boil. The plating "rectifiers" are 0 to 6V, 300A power supplies. In the 80's I once popped out the contents of some holes and they were like spring coils that fit tightly in the holes. There must have been other variations. -- Reply in group, but if emailing add another zero, and remove the last word. |
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Tom Del Rosso wrote:
"Chuck Harris" wrote in message Then the boards get clamped firmly to a copper cathode bar, and get inserted into the copper plating tank. Because the metal doesn't like to plate into holes, you need to use an excessively high current density, and high agitation. The tank looks like it is at a roiling boil. The plating "rectifiers" are 0 to 6V, 300A power supplies. In the 80's I once popped out the contents of some holes and they were like spring coils that fit tightly in the holes. There must have been other variations. There were some companies that were incapable of doing plated through construction that did that, mostly TV and appliance makers. It was grossly unreliable. Plated through holes on multilayer holes can look funny because the hole drilled in the board isn't always perfectly smooth... the boards are fiberglass laminates, after all and the plating will be an exact image of all the nooks and crannies in the hole. -Chuck Harris |
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"robb" wrote in message
... So here are the finished pics. I could not move traces to outside of chip because there is not enough room for the PCB adapter under the cover that snaps on top (in fact i will need to file down long sides of what is in pics so that cover will close over the chip. I am no solder wizard, some are passable most are hideous (i know) but they seem to have a good connection i show he resist, the etch the idea nad completed bottom and top. i did try to make the images as small as possible robb |
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:01:52 -0400, "robb" wrote:
"robb" wrote in message ... So here are the finished pics. I could not move traces to outside of chip because there is not enough room for the PCB adapter under the cover that snaps on top (in fact i will need to file down long sides of what is in pics so that cover will close over the chip. I am no solder wizard, some are passable most are hideous (i know) but they seem to have a good connection i show he resist, the etch the idea nad completed bottom and top. i did try to make the images as small as possible robb Looks fine to me. John |
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[Images of completed PCB] constructive critic on my plcc adapter PCB
"John Larkin" wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:01:52 -0400, "robb" wrote: "robb" wrote in message ... So here are the finished pics. robb Looks fine to me. John Thanks John, for the vote of confidence. your too kind, robb |
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[Images of completed PCB] constructive critic on my plcc adapter PCB
"robb" wrote in message ... "John Larkin" wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:01:52 -0400, "robb" "robb" wrote in message ... So here are the finished pics. robb Looks fine to me. John Thanks John, for the vote of confidence. your too kind, oops :} i meant **you're** robb |
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