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About designing the boards which carry the components of an electronic circuit, including placement of parts and routing of traces. For questions about getting them built instead use PCB-fabrication. If your question is specific to a certain CAD tool, say which tool and version you are using.
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SMD size 0805 vs 1206
Using SMD to make the PCB smaller is an easy choice but I'm wondering if using mainly 0805 size is really worth it compared to 1206.
I don't want to store a mix of both.
These are some pro and cons, …
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Cleaning PCBs... using water?
I found this video where a technician with a lot of experience seems to clean his PCBs using water, and then he just puts it in the sun so it can dry. I was just amazed to see the circuit keeps workin …
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What's the purpose of the ground plane?
What's the purpose of the ground plane?
I guess it's a pretty basic question and I tried to understand it by reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_plane#Printed_circuit_boards but I still don't …
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Gold coated pads
Is there any difference between a gold coated pad and a gold pad? I have been ordering boards from OSH park, they are really good quality, I'm just wondering what benefits this has over silver or bare …
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PCB Tinning to increase current
How can I design a PCB in order for it to have this kind of PCB Tinning finish?
I do know this decreases the resistance of the tracks and increases the amount of current it can handle however
Do I n …
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Altium can't output NC drills file?
At the end i ended up editing the drill files myself
i could output 2 txt files one for circles and another for squares in order for make themn all squares i just copy /pasted the coordinates from t …
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Copper weight/thickness current capacity
i have been reading about how Copper weight/thickness is important in several areas of PCB design. The thickness and width of a trace determines the amount of current (amps) the trace can carry. The t …
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Altium can't output NC drills file?
I'm about to send my gerber files to OSH park however I'm having trouble generating the drill file in Altium 14.3. The output file is some other format than the Excellon / NC Drills file that the fab …
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