EEVblog #239 - PCB Design For Manufacture Part 2

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PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXE_dh38HjU
A follow up to Dave's popular PCB Design For Manufacture (DFM) tutorial video.
This time he updates his uCurrent PCB for production, including panelisation layout and component reel selection. Lots of the same ground is covered as in part 1, but with a specific real project example.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Printed Circuit Board
• pcb
• design
• layout
• panel
• panelization
• production
• prototype
• solder
• mask
• silkscreen
• manufacturing
• component
• selection
• digikey
• mouse
• reel
• surface
• mount
• smd
• qualtity
• purchasing
• tape
• pick
• and
• place
• machine
• altium
• designer
• eagle
• kicad

[madmodders]

Uhm... You've got a capital K for kilo on your silkscreen! ;)

[EEVblog]

@madmodders That's the way it should be, none of this lower case rubbish! :-P

[rasz]

sooo what if you order 250 boards made and they will all fail your accuracy test? :P

[EEVblog]

@rasz I've got a lot of desoldering to do!

[myshots101]

Great videos. I just found your channel this week and started watching the videos. I was wondering, what program do you use on windows to make your videos? I would like to get something but yours seems to work well, I can read what you are showing on your desktop, etc.

[EEVblog]

@myshots101 I use the free package CamStudio and ensure that I have a fixed capture area of 1280x720, so it's exactly 16:9 format and does not need any manipulation in the video editor software.

[f1adore]

how is the makerbot build going?

[EEVblog]

@Wilfredkazoks Any idiot can use Google :->

[enuro12]

I've just watched almost two hours of your videos! Really enjoy your knowledge. I wish i understood 1/100th of what you're talking about.

[thenerdyouknowabout]

Where the hell did you get that awesome shirt!!!!???

[myshots101]

@EEVblog Thank you. I thought I saw that but never used it. I got horrible lighting in my room apparently and my cheap point and shoot camera isn't much good indoors either. I also don't like to edit videos myself, they just take forever so whatever makes this less work is good for me.

[MonkeyFCoconut]

I really want to learn something that I don't know already... but it's painful sitting through an hour of video for it. Great video for the beginners ;-)

[madmodders]

@EEVblog Yes, that may seem logical, but the Système International d'Unités says otherwise. :-D

[flytepark]

@EEvblog. Good video. A couple of things that I'd like to point out. The assembly house isn't necessarily going to charge more to assemble your boards using cut tape. The place we use specifically told us that having the components per-reeled would be a waste of money. They have cut tape feeders and the set up time is no different for them. On penalization, we just gave the PCB house our panelization specs and they panelized them for us.