It sounds to me like the person who designed and build this PCB did not know that commercial PCBs have plated through holes. It did not know this at first either. (No one is born knowing this stuff) You can't make this kind of PCB at home so home builders have to design their boards differently and not assume a hole will pass a signal through the board.
What you do on your next layout is only have thru-leads soldered on the solder side of the PCB. If you need to pass a signal through the board make a special hole that holds just a short 1/8th inch length of wire and solder that from both ends. It turns out that surface mount parts make life easy. Design your next PCB to use surface mount resistors and caps on the component side. Save s alot of hole drilling and space. At the very least make all the decoupling by-pass caps SMT On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, richard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:18:09 -0400 > DJ Delorie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > When you say a wire, are you talking hollow wire so that the >> > component can be inserted into the hole also? I'm not >> > understanding. Does the 22ga wire lay beside the component lead? >> > If that's the case all the thru holes will be too small. -- ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
