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Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Through hole solutions?

From: "Leon Heller" <leon_heller@...>
Date: 2004-03-04

>From: "fyffe555" <ap_leapyear@...>
>Reply-To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Through hole solutions?
>Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:58:40 -0000
>
>Hi all, great group. I'm a relative newbie using Eagle to make two
>sided boards. Have build a cnc machine that will does double duty to
>drill the holes for me and use TT with 10mil tracks with magazine
>paper and even regular hi grade copier paper on a HP IIIP with fair
>success. Tried milling isolation but that's no good for more complex
>or densly packed boards.
>
>Here's my problem I'm doing a lot (for me) of prototype boards with
>db25 connections right angle and 0.100 dual row connectors. What's
>the best way to deal with the problem of through holes for these?
>That is I often find that I end up with a bottom and top track
>meeting at a pin on one of these connectors and I can't solder the
>top connection on all the pins?


You could avoid the problem by using vias with wire links through them.

Leon
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