<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<br>
<div class="moz-forward-container">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/27/2018 11:03 AM, Ove Ridé
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CABacs=Cjc2QkMF0B27_eajmp+v_e=jjEFm0tPO1P7juGf7Hpew@mail.gmail.com">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<div dir="auto">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.</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, 20:52 MTG, <<a
href="mailto:grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So my pet
peeve is different. While soldering up some prototype boards
<br>
received from DirtyPCBs (Wherelabs) I found one copy of
board A that had <br>
two feedthroughs shorted and one copy of board B that had
traces with <br>
gaps in them (missing copper). Same thing happened before
on boards <br>
from OshPark. I wish I'd noticed before I soldered the parts
on! I <br>
guess I need to super inspect each board. The gaps aren't
really that <br>
hard to see, but the feedthroughs I needed to buzz out to
find. <br>
Fortunately that one was fixable. The missing copper one is
quite a few <br>
traces and not sure it's worth the time to rework it.<br>
<br>
So, any sage advice? Is PCB testing worth it? Or is the cost
of a couple <br>
of bad boards less painful.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Synth-diy mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br>
</blockquote>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
</div>
</body>
</html>