Homebrew PCBs

Really depends on what you're doing.  For my power converter stuff I do
a power plane on one side and ground plane on the other as it acts as a
nice capacitor to short out ~100MHz kind of stuff.

--Adam.

On 04/06/11 20:52, Terry wrote:
> Generally speaking, the more ground plane -- top and bottom -- the better.  The last step in most of my designs is to do a polygon fill tied to GND on both sides of the board.
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>> I am closing in on designing a board that is a mix of SMD and through hole parts. I am using a zone on the bottom side to provide a ground plane; I wondered about adding a zone to the top as well. If I did a top zone, is there any reason I can't make it a ground plane as well?
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