Dedicated PSU for DEQ/DCX2496

Hey Guys!

I've a technical question. yes ;-)

Do you know if the soldermask resin used on PCB is a problem with cooling?

I'm ordering a new batch of miniVreg PCB and the price is more expensive if I remove the soldermask on the botton side (for cooling, to have a good contact with the heatsink, I removed it). They use more gold.

Stef...


The bottom side is on the right.
Soldermask or not?
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

My solder are very bad. Beurk!!!
 
I applied for a free sample of the PTN78000WAH DC/DC converter and the people from TI where so kind to send me one 🙂

Regards
 

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Ryssen said:
The first pic was x1,
this one is x10:

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.


Is it okay?


Well, if anything, it tells us there is a measurement issue. It isn't easy to reliably measure fast signals. For instance, how long is the earth wire of the probe? That's inductance> ringing > see scope pic...

Take a good piece of coax with a BNC on one end. Solder the other end directly to the point you want to measure, with the ground connection also close to that point. Let's see what you have then.

Jan Didden