no, it was worse than that (easier bds) they were meatball 10/10 mostly 12/12 bds there was a giant pour on the entire top the clearance on the pour was 20 mils all the way around the pads (to make it easy and not get shorts!)
they said with a big plane it is harder to etch there must be at least a bit of truth to that because i have had this trouble with this type of board from 3 different shops - albeit not the highest tech shops kicking around the board was pretty long, about 15 inches, that may or may not be a factor once i got the right shop and ACTUAL testing, all the problems vanished now we just turn em on and ship em what a difference between that and chasing microscopic slivers to ground at random points! i don't want to name names because as they say 'sh*t happens' - i just don't go there anymore Dennis Saputelli Tim Hutcheson wrote: > > What were the track and gap specs on these boards? Are they consistently > having trouble only on the 7/8 boards, or what? > > Sincerely, > > Tim Hutcheson > -------------------------------------------- > "There are 10 kinds of people in the world; > those that can read binary and those that can't." > -- Anonymous > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 6:54 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT - Complex boards and time to Layout? > > it has happened to me twice > 2 different shops > they charged for test setup, testing, but there were short all over some > of them and they were only double sided > > Dennis Saputelli > > Jon Elson wrote: > > > > Bagotronix Tech Support wrote: > > > > > With a board that complex, your board vendor had better actually be > doing > > > electrical test, instead of just charging for it and not doing it... > > > > What? This is endemic in the industry? I've had to can several vendors > > for pulling this stunt. But, when they get caught by me, with my (in > > comparison) quite modest boards, there's no doubt what is going on, > because > > the boards come back with 50% failure rate. IE. 50% of the boards have at > > least > > one internal short or open. I usually get the test report from Advanced > > Circuits, > > so I know what their yield is on multilayer boards. And, it is somewhere > > between > > 50 and 75% on most runs. The 2-sided usually come back at 90% or better > > passing. > > > > So, it is real hard for me to believe that many fabricators pull these > > stunts of > > pretending to do electrical test as a routine matter. I think they'd get > > caught > > WAY too often. > > > > Jon > > -- -- ___________________________________________________________________________ www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Integrated Controls, Inc. tel: 415-647-0480 2851 21st Street fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
