prototype wiring
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Back in the day, for tricky prototypes I'd use single-sided
copper-clad perfboard with the cladding being the ground plane, but on the component side. Then I'd lay out my circuit by hand, placing the wiring on the other side, and making the wiring between components as short as possible. After that, I'd spot-face through the cladding where I needed wiring to cross over and, using a soldering iron, melt Vector T44 terminals into the FR4, (G-10 back then) orienting their turrets to receive component leads at the right angle. In the beginning I used to do all of the underwiring first, in order to spare the components one solder cycle, but after a while the hole dimensions (or the thermal characteristics of the perfboard got to be so bad that melting the terminals in wouldn't keep them clinched into the FR4 after it cooled. The solution turned out to be soldering the components into the terminals and using the casual misalignment to keep the terminals from falling out, then wiring the underside with bus wire per the layout. The attached photos are of a differential capacitance angle sensor which was built that way. -- JF |
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