MiniNut PCBs

[Mark Jessop]

Hi all,

The PCBs for my MiniNut Telemetry board arrived in the post today!

I got these ordered through SeeedStudio's Fusion PCB service, and they
use 0.2mm clearances.

I'm quite impressed with the manufacturing quality!

73s
Mark

[Daniel Thompson]

Wow! Nice work Mark. Looks really good!

Dan.

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[queglay]

nice dude. I'm going to get something made soon. im wondering if you
know how in eagle if you can allow a whole track to be exposed metal,
would you know about this? i guess its kinda like that big metal pad
you have in your board there.

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[Mark Jessop]

No idea, I use Altium Designer >_>

- Mark

[Mark Jessop]

The first few MiniNut telemetry boards have been built!

http://rfhead.net/gallery/2011-06-16_Assembled_MiniNut/

There were a few stuff-ups on my part resulting in use of re-work wire,
but all the boards are working!

Cheers,
Mark

[Daniel Thompson]

Outstanding Mark! Did you solder these all by hand?

[Mark Jessop]

Yes, all by hand.
I was considering doing a bit of re-flow for the BMP085 pressure sensors
(QFN package), but I ended up not needing to.

Cheers,
Mark

[Jonathan Pearce]

Have you tried reflow with solder paste and a hot air gun? I've heard a
toaster oven produces better results but I haven't tried one yet - alas
a proper temperature controlled hot air soldering pencil is way out of
my price range. The hot air gun method is unnerving at first but you get
high quality results after a little practice (or a lot of practice in my
case).
-Jonathan