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Through holes vs pads for hand soldering
I am currently designing my first PCB to be manufactured by a fab (I am using JLCPCB). The base material that JLCPCB offers is FR-4 TG130.
In that design, I have a few wires that would need to be hand-...
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PCB electroplating then etching
How can I protect the through holes copper which is electroplated from being etched away by the ferric chloride? Is there a resistive solution or it`s just the conductive ink.
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What does this fabrication rule do?
Does the part that says, "Plate Through Holes with copper, 0.001" thick min" mean that 0.001" hole plating will be applied to all plated holes?
I am new to the fabrication process and I am wondering ...
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Eagle Drill vs. Diameter Parameters when making Through Hole Parts
I am working on making footprints in Eagle for a through-hole connector I want to use. I am running into some issues as I try to determine the appropriate diameter and drill size I need for the ...
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Edge-mounted vias... or how is this called? And can PCBs services manufacture it?
As you can see, the through-holes (vias) are at the border of the inner cutout. (rendering is wrong of course, as vias are not cut)
I imagine a manufacturer first prints the board and then cuts it, ...
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THT decoupling capacitor spacing from the TQFP uC's power pin
How close can the uC's power pin (TQFP pad) and a ceramic cap's PTH pin can get so the PCB fabrication process or later exploitation would not go wrong?
Some ballpark figures for common equipment ...
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Pastemask. Manufacturing PCBs
after finishing some designs, it is time to manufacture and assemble them.
For making these designs I have to create all padstacks, footprints, etc from scratch, so I took PCB Editor examples as ...
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Drill files from Kicad for PTH and NPTH
I have a board in Kicad that uses a mixture of plated and non-plated through holes. It generates two drill files for these. However, manufacturers seem to expect only a single file. If they don't ...
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