{"id":492,"date":"2016-07-17T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2016-07-17T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T11:52:57","slug":"just-got-my-first-pcb-made-outside-my-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/posts\/just-got-my-first-pcb-made-outside-my-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Just got my first PCB made outside my shop."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until now I have always etched all my boards at home. Every now and then I have checked the prices for getting it fabricated for me, and while the prices have dropped incredibly the last few years, the shipping to where I live have brought it over my pain limit.<\/p>\n<p>So for my current project the plan was to do the same. But both my inkjet and my laser printer was in a bad mood and I had trouble getting good contrast when trying to make the photo masks. So I checked the prices again. And now it is pretty reasonable and I decided to attempt my first board house order.<\/p>\n<p>I edited the layout a little to make it more suitable for fabrication at a board house. Like reducing the VIA sizes a bit (I usually make them a bit oversized to make them easier to drill manually) and tidying up the silkscreen.<\/p>\n<p>First I sent off a microcontroller board that I&#8217;m going to use as a controller for my Tesla Coil. And a couple of days later I sent off the power board for the same project (H-bridge inverter). When the controller board came back I filmed the population and initial testing and put it on my Youtube account where you can check out how that worked out (and laugh at my mistakes along the way).<\/p>\n<p>First applying the solder past for SMD components:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AjCHi6Il6NQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then placing the SMD components:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dx4Htje5i9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And reflow:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sv4a49MzCPw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before populating through hole components and testing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSqPfLmcAUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have since received the inverter board aswell and will probably write more about that later. But right now I&#8217;m away from home for a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now I have always etched all my boards at home. Every now and then I have checked the prices for getting it fabricated for me, and while the prices have dropped incredibly the last few years, the shipping to where I live have brought it over my pain limit. So for my current project &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/posts\/just-got-my-first-pcb-made-outside-my-shop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just got my first PCB made outside my shop.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kavionic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}