There are different reasons for this , first of I use AWR MWO to design and simulate circuits so in order for the simulations to match or come close to the actual build you need to have defined tolerances and you have to be able to do the through holes in a consistent manner , even if I were to set up at home I would not be able to do this effectively defeating the purpose of using simulation tools .
The second and probably most important reasoning though is that I have a 5 year old granddaughter who has been my shadow since she arrived in this world spends a lot of time at our house and takes a keen interest in anything opa does a curiosity I intent to foster and encourage so having any nasty chemicals around the lab or fumes is not a good idea
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Just yankin' your chain.. ;) I've done ferric chloride etching too, way back when, and got yelled at by my grandmother about holes in my jeans. Now I send my Gerbers off to OshPark for prototypes, and get production boards made by the big board houses. There are plenty of nasty chemicals in my mostly-electronics lab, but no PCB etchants.
-Dave
On 3/18/22 21:51, Lothar baier wrote:
I still design circuits , I build them and I test them so I am still
doing about 80% of the work
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On 3/18/22 21:04, Lothar baier wrote:
I stopped doing it years ago mainly because the materials I mostly
use ( Rogers 4350,6010) are not available with photo resist coating
and if you send them out for coating than the lot charge is quite
high ,also the process for plating through at home is not easy to do
and requires quite nasty chemicals so I resort nowadays to just have
the boards made by a board shop
Hey wait, weren't you the guy who was just complaining that nobody
does anything anymore? ;)
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
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New Kensington, PA
