I can't believe- Markus is a member of this board! It is a very
professionally looking setup that you created.
Have you been able to provide few words that people could follow your
idea of plating thru?
Picture with two copper plates and a airating tube in between: how
are the plates connected to the PS? Both are conencted to each other
and then they are connected to + and - ?!?!
Mike
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Markus Zingg <m.zingg@n...>
wrote:
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>
> m.zingg@n...
>
> No problem
>
> Markus
>
> >Excellent info, Dave. I wish Marcus provided email to ocntact him.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Mucha"
<dave_mucha@y...>
> >wrote:
> >> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...>
> >wrote:
> >> > I searched but weren't able to locate any posts on the subject
> >but
> >> I
> >> > recall that tehre was a dicussion of it. Does anyone know a
> >simple
> >> > method that works on plating holes in a PCB? Mike
> >>
> >> I think the best home-brew (closer to professional sho) unit is
> >from
> >> Markus
> >>
> >> http://www.myhome.ch/mzingg/pcbstuff/tps/
> >>
> >>
> >> Also go back to the posts around 1100, maybe go directly to 1108
> >and
> >> start reading. IIRC, there was a detailed list of each step
> >needed.
> >>
> >> This is not for the faint of heart nor a simple one shot project.
> >>
> >>
> >> On the other side of things, there is a simple method from think
> >and
> >> tinker that plates the holes with a silver compound. not cheap.
> >>
> >> And there has been some mention of using carbon black as a
method.
> >> look around message 170.
> >>
> >> also post 1163 and 2344
> >>
> >> Interestlingly there is not a lot of posts regarding this. I
would
> >> have hoped someone would have figured out how to do it easier.
> >>
> >>
> >> IIRC, there was a gentleman who posted quite a bit about carbon
> >black
> >> and his findings about using that to create the connections.
> >>
> >> Most of use try to use single sided boards to the greatest level
> >and
> >> then add as few jumpers as possible. As Stefan pointed out
> >recently,
> >> a resistor is a zero hole connection. so, if you can, use your
> >thru-
> >> hole devices as ways to connect both sides of the boards.
> >>
> >> And if you find you are doing a lot near an IC, you can take a
> >> machined pin IC socket and pull out all the pins and press them
> >into
> >> the holes on the board and then solder from both sides.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
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