[sdiy] Today's Pet Peeve: PCBs

[David G Dixon]

Hmm.  Interestink.

I always thought that professionally made boards were always "perfect" and I
only had to worry about my own janky-ass boards.  However, I always
thoroughly inspect my own boards for visual faults, test anything that looks
remotely suspect, and tin any traces that look at all raggedy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On 
> Behalf Of MTG
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 10:49 AM
> To: synth-diy at synth-diy.org
> Subject: [sdiy] Today's Pet Peeve: PCBs
> 
> 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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