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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: How wide tracks - link to calculator

2004-04-20 by Stefan Trethan

>
> Don't forget that you can tin the trace and make it thicker or lay a
> copper wire on it and tin that and make a fat trace.


But don't do that with HF currents, the skin effect will displace

your current to the wall and you effectively increase the resistance.

Have read this somewhere - they have tried but i don't remember where.

ST

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