[sdiy] Today's Pet Peeve: PCBs

[MTG]

I'd have to get at my files to look but not at any limits. Wouldn't 
matter anyway for the gaps board. The missing copper is at least 0.5 mm 
gap and runs through traces a few cm wide. Meaning it's like laying a 1" 
piece of hookup wire arbitrarily on your pcb and all the traces under it 
are open. This board is basic  through hole.

On 7/27/2018 11:03 AM, Ove Ridé wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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