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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Now

From: Alessio Sangalli <alesan@...>
Date: 2010-08-20

On 08/20/2010 03:15 AM, Malcolm Parker-Lisberg wrote:
> Looks good, thanks, nice to know the formula works. One thing I found
> with electroless tin was that when used on PCB tracks on a high
> impedance circuit, was the tin seemed to coat the non-copper areas of
> the FR4 board and significantly reduce the impedance.


I am not a very "analog" guy because I think in terms of "short" or
"open". What do you mean exactly here? Is the tinning "shorting" tracks?

My question at this point: we saw it works of a "solid" PCB, but how
good is it on an etched circuit?

bye
as