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Subject: Re: Breaking a Trace

From: "designer_craig" <cs6061@...>
Date: 2010-04-17

An xacto blade works but you can also build a circuit blaster from a
large capacitor, dc supply and a couple of probe points and a foot
switch.

Put the probes on two parts of the trace and hit the foot switch and the
trace is gone. I built it for cutting inner layer traces on 6 layer
boards. You need enough energy to do in the trace without causing a
carbon tract. I limited my voltage to 5V so as not to damage and IC's
on the board, that's a little harder to day with 1.8V parts.

Craig

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Chris Maness <chris@...> wrote:
>
> I just noticed that one of my lands over laps a trace. What is the
best way
> of fixing this without having to re-do the whole board? Is the xacto
knife
> my only option?
>
> Chris KQ6UP
>
>
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