Homebrew PCBs

--- Leon Heller <leon.heller@...> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "adastra_2001" <adastra_2001@...>
> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:18 PM
> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: tubes
> 
> 
> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com,
> "derekhawkins" <eldata@...>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >Are there any free or low cost (<$300)
> PCB/Schematic
> >> >programs that have part libraries of tubes?
> >>
> >> Looks like there are some Eagle shared user tube
> related libraries
> >> here;
> >>
> >> http://www.cadsoftusa.com/download.htm
> >>
> >> Follow the Libraries link.
> >>
> >> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com,
> "adastra_2001"
> >> <adastra_2001@> wrote:
> >> >
> >>I thank you for the link regarding Eagle
> Libraries. I have
> > downloaded them and I will try them. As far as the
> reluctance to make
> > my own library parts, yes that has a little to do
> with it as well as
> > the difficulty for me to make the physical
> measurements needed for a
> > tube socket that will work in a PCB program.
> 
> You should be able to find the relevant dimensions
> for standard valve 
> sockets without too many problems.
> 
> Leon

Are there still sockets for PCBs? All I find around
here are chassis mounts. The only time I ever made a
tube equipment with a PCB I just placed the connecting
pads at the edge. Another possibility would have been
making the mounting hole in the PCB and surround it
with the pads.

- YD.


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