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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] 1 and 3 mil lines

2009-03-09 by DJ Delorie

Mike Schoenborn <rtfm@...> writes:

> Come on now, you're dealing with engineers here! :-)

Well, yeah.

> Can the Perl code be twiddled to report the length of the
> resulting tracks?  I'm sure someone here (with better memory
> than me) could use that information to compute what the
> actual resistance should really be.

PCB can report that, it's on the order of 60 feet each for the 5 mil
board - about 140 ohms at 0.5oz!

The 1 mil board at 0.5oz is 315 feet, and about 3.7k ohms.

Ok, maybe I'll add the math to the perl script ;-)

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