Dan,

Would you please point out what kinds of EMI headaches this would cause?

Thanks, Abbas


At 12:32 PM 1/18/01 -0500, Roman, Dan wrote:
>
>Remember that you can also cause yourself all kinds of EMI headaches if you
>have electrically floating copper areas or patterns on the board.  It has
>lead to many arguments with the CAD department over the years!
>
>-- Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Phillips [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:33 AM
>To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Copper Thieving
>
>
>
>  Copper applied to the outer PCB layers, in a pattern, 
>to even out the copper placement so the board is less 
>likely to warp through soldering.  Obviously, it would 
>be put where there is not etch, large open areas, to 
>somewhat offset where you might have planes of 
>copper elsewhere on the layer.  
>
>  Beware of Creepage and Clearance violations 
>(if applicable).  Some PCB fab. houses have 
>carte-blanche to add this, we don't allow that - 
>and control it as part of our own PCB CAD 
>instead.  
>
>  Best regards, 
>  Stephen  
>
>At 09:15 AM 1/18/01 Thursday , [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>Please excuse my lack of knowledge..........................what is "copper
>>thieving"?
>>
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