DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Re: SMT Soldering

Sat Jun 7 11:59:05 CDT 2008

Hey Eric,

I haven't tried it, but Advanced Circuits has been sending me "First
$500.00 Order Free!" postcards for quite some time.  It looks like
this offer is open to everyone.

http://www.4pcb.com/newcustomer/

- Jeff

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Eric Sumner <kd5bjo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wow, pretty complicated first design in Eagle.
>
> Yeah, I would have preferred to start with something a little simpler,
> but I didn't have much choice; I have to make these boards now.
>
>> Looks like you might have built more parts than you needed to.
>> RCL is the resistor, capacitor, inductor library.
>
> I took the resistor from the RCL library, and then made the capacitor,
> inductor, and LED off of the same package.
>
>> ISP6 and ISP10 headers in some of the atmel libraries.
>> Did you look at the cadsoft site for downloadable libraries -- if you don't
>> find the parts, e.g. atmel, you are looking fo, give it a look. If a library
>> is not showing up in your Add list, you will need to do a Library | Use to
>> add it to the search list.
>
> After a little while, I got tired of searching for the parts I needed
> in the libraries and decided it would be faster to make them myself.
> I usually used a premade package spec and just drew the symbol, if it
> was something standard.
>
>> Smash is real handy for getting the name and value labels where you can drag
>> them about.
>>
>> I assume you are getting a solder masked board made?
>> Copper pours with no solder mask are a real pain to solder IMHO
>> very easy to bridge connections -- I realize you probably need the ground
>> plane..
>
> I was thinking about using the $33 each special from Advanced
> Circuits, but I may just get a plain board so that I can get them
> faster; there aren't too many underside connections.
>
>  -- Eric
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