Inconsistent track width

Avamander · 14 Dec 2017, 15:44

Is this inconsistency intended on the old 0.8.5 board (screenshot of Duet0.85.brd)?

T3P3Tony · 14 Dec 2017, 15:58

Woops, that's an error in the old board design. Is it in the Gerbers as well?

Have a go with fitting it all into 3 layers. TBH I never considered a 3 layer board as that's pretty non standard. You need a good ground plane though.

May I ask what your plans are?

Avamander · 14 Dec 2017, 22:02

Is it in the Gerbers as well?
Haven't checked.

May I ask what your plans are?
Just thought for a moment about rolling with my own board, because paying more than a 2 hundred $ just sounded too steep for me so I was looking at if I could save some cost. Adding it all up (including time I'd have to spend to learn how to redesign the board to 3(or even more extreme 2)-layers without errors) I realized it's not worth it.

EDIT: Clarified my sentence

T3P3Tony · 15 Dec 2017, 09:33

Fair enough

I would be pretty surprised if anyone managed to make it fit on 2 layers. Also that would remove the ground plane which would be a bad idea.

Avamander · 15 Dec 2017, 13:33

@T3P3Tony:

Fair enough

I would be pretty surprised if anyone managed to make it fit on 2 layers. Also that would remove the ground plane which would be a bad idea.

Would most likely mean just quite a "few" 0ohm resistors and a larger sized board (which isn't bad in terms of heat dissipation though).