[sdiy] Today's Pet Peeve: PCBs

[Ove Ridé]

How close were you to the minimum width spec? From my days of making PCBs
manually, I have a habit of using as thick traces as I can get away, or at
least a consistent width that's above the minimum spec.

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, 20:52 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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