[sdiy] Today's Pet Peeve: PCBs

[Vladimir Pantelic]

in about three dozen orders from PCWAY and ALLPCB I never had a bad board
except one where the stop mask had a blemish...

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 20:02 David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:

> 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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