Help needed?
If you care to sign an oath with a lawyer and a witness to promise you are not going to produce this PCB for commercial gains or groupbuys then our senior citizens may entertain you.
Otherwsie I think you may be on your own due to no fault of your own of course!
The Butcher
If you care to sign an oath with a lawyer and a witness to promise you are not going to produce this PCB for commercial gains or groupbuys then our senior citizens may entertain you.
Otherwsie I think you may be on your own due to no fault of your own of course!
The Butcher
Hi,
I am not so sure about the size of the tracks and spacing if you have doubts regarding the software's default setting then go overkill for safety by manual setting if it is an option.
Let me share my experience with laser prints and iron onto the copper. I like to set the print to BOLD to ensure enough toner but when you have spacing too close to each other then there is a danger of BOLD would make a short! As pinkmouse stated try and experiment. At this stage you are not going to ruin the copper board since you can wipe it clean and start printing again..
hope this help
The Butcher
I am not so sure about the size of the tracks and spacing if you have doubts regarding the software's default setting then go overkill for safety by manual setting if it is an option.
Let me share my experience with laser prints and iron onto the copper. I like to set the print to BOLD to ensure enough toner but when you have spacing too close to each other then there is a danger of BOLD would make a short! As pinkmouse stated try and experiment. At this stage you are not going to ruin the copper board since you can wipe it clean and start printing again..
hope this help
The Butcher
My experience
I have made a lot of PCB's with trackwidth: 15mills and track-to-track spacing: 12mills without any errors. The biggest source of error is usually the poor quality of the PCB that are available to me.
If there is the smallest scratch in the protective foil you'll get an error in you design. But the same goes for the quality of your print-work.
HP's Laserjet 4 (and maybe 5) are some of the best. They will print perfekt every time even for smaller trackwidths.
TroelsM
Denmark
I have made a lot of PCB's with trackwidth: 15mills and track-to-track spacing: 12mills without any errors. The biggest source of error is usually the poor quality of the PCB that are available to me.
If there is the smallest scratch in the protective foil you'll get an error in you design. But the same goes for the quality of your print-work.
HP's Laserjet 4 (and maybe 5) are some of the best. They will print perfekt every time even for smaller trackwidths.
TroelsM
Denmark
Does this look acceptable?
Spacing is eagle's default setting (8mil), but I changed the trace width to 1mm
http://roulz.free.fr/DIY/board.pdf
Spacing is eagle's default setting (8mil), but I changed the trace width to 1mm
http://roulz.free.fr/DIY/board.pdf
pinkmouse said:I'd leave a bit more spacing than that, otherwise soldering will be a real pain...
OK.
For soldering, so just arounf the pads, or also for the tracks?
This spacing allows me to have a full groundplane, going nearly everywhere since it even goes between the pads.
Are the traces ok, or too thick?
Here are 2 others:
http://roulz.free.fr/DIY/board-12.pdf (12mm spacing)
http://roulz.free.fr/DIY/board-16.pdf (16mm spacing)
http://roulz.free.fr/DIY/board-12.pdf (12mm spacing)
http://roulz.free.fr/DIY/board-16.pdf (16mm spacing)
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