11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
5:46 p.m.
On 11 Mar 2010 at 4:33, Steve Robertson wrote:
I generally use a hand-wrapping tool to unwind the
wires. I really
don't know of an easier way to unwind them. It's tedious work but, if
you're doing small projects like I was, you can do a small area and
then cut that section from the bigger board.
I do my boards a bit differently. I use single-sided FR4 PCB,
usually 0.060" thick and drill holes for the pins and punch them in
(slighly countersinking the foil side). It's only a little more work
than using the gridded-out-lots-of-pins protoboards, but more than
makes up for it in that components are easy to identify (no "forest
of pins" effect) and presents a ground plane that's second to none.
--Chuck