On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Dave N6NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on a design for the local robot club where I want to make > the board as "newbie friendly" as possible in every way. This includes > making it approachable to those that may be timid about soldering. So I > made easy-solder footprints by putting a whonking-big oblong pad on the > solder side of the footprint, and left the normal annulus on the > component side. This kills less routing capacity on the component side. For DIP packages I have been using a 40mil x 90mil overlay on both sides of the boards. I have found these very easy to solder. For 100mil center DIPs there is 40mils of space between pads. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
