[sdiy] Today's Pet Peeve: PCBs

[Pete Hartman]

I've always had electrical checks done.  I think AllPCB (who I've used for
the last several) includes it in their price.

Pete

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:49 PM, MTG <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com>
wrote:

> So my pet peeve is different. While soldering up some prototype boards
> received from DirtyPCBs (Wherelabs) I found one copy of board A that had
> two feedthroughs shorted and one copy of board B that had traces with gaps
> in them (missing copper).  Same thing happened before on boards from
> OshPark. I wish I'd noticed before I soldered the parts on!  I guess I need
> to super inspect each board. The gaps aren't really that hard to see, but
> the feedthroughs I needed to buzz out to find. Fortunately that one was
> fixable. The missing copper one is quite a few traces and not sure it's
> worth the time to rework it.
>
> So, any sage advice? Is PCB testing worth it? Or is the cost of a couple
> of bad boards less painful.
>
>
>
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