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RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Photoresist

2012-01-02 by MIKE DURKIN

How about an exposures bed ...??

3W ... 405nm

Ebay 250947529770 


To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
From: oceanartscasino@...
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 05:16:53 +0000
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Photoresist














 



  


    
      
      
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--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "bebx2000" <bebx2000@...> wrote:

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> Hi Jeff,

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> I bought a 40x objective from a seller on eBay and did a few tests with an ordinary white led and found that you can indeed get a very fine spot. The weight of the objective, however, would probably

> preclude its use as a pen in say, an X-Y plotter. Therefore, an X-Y table is needed and now you are getting into the realm of CNC and things start to get expensive. I started to look at laser X-Y scanners,

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> http://www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=1622

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> http://elm-chan.org/works/vlp/report_e.html

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> My conclusion here is that the beam diameter is most likely to be too large for for PCB work and some extra optics such as a plano convex or a ball lens would be necessary to get the beam to a spot as it is coming off the mirror. In this regard search for F-theta lenses. The problem with optical approaches is the mechanical precision necessary in the placement of components. You could of course use DLP if you have plenty of money,

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> http://www.ti.com/analog/docs/memsmidlevel.tsp?sectionId=622&tabId=2455

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> I have largely perfected toner transfer for one-off purposes so all of this is mainly of academic interest for me.

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> Baxter

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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Heiss" <jeff.heiss@> wrote:

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> > Hi Baxter,

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> > I read a message from a few months ago on the UV Pen discussion that you

> > were experimenting with a UV LED and a microscope objective to focus the LED

> > down for resist developing.  How are your experiments going?  Any findings

> > yet?

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