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Week 4

Electronics Production

Group Assignment

Design rules for in-house PCB production

A test was conducted on the Roland MDX-20 to assess the achievable level of detail. The results indicate that while the trace width can be as narrow as 0.1mm, a width of 0.2mm to 0.3mm is advisable. Additionally, although possible to get narrow spacing using narrow milling bits or V-bits the test determined that the minimum spacing between traces should be 0.4mm when using a 1/64 milling bit. (images borrowed from Hafey and Andri)

pcbTest

Send a PCB out to a board house

Gabriella documented on her site the process of ordering a PCB from JLCPCB