...................... and to maintain even etching and plating distribution over the whole board and thus avoid problems during PCB manufacture............
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Phillips [mailto:step...@cisco.com] Sent: 18 January 2001 14:33 To: rehel...@mmm.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org 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 , rehel...@mmm.com wrote: > >Please excuse my lack of knowledge..........................what is "copper >thieving"? > > >------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety >Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > >To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > majord...@ieee.org >with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > >For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com > Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org > >For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org