DipTrace troubles with PCB

[MikeRamsey]

One critique and only because if I had started doing it earlier I’d have been happier:

@Robert taught me to connect grounds with a ground pour rather than manual tracing.

I’d recommend this.

Identify your ground net and then create a ground pour attached to that net. Then you don’t need to concern yourself with routing grounds because the pour does it for you.

I can post the ground pour settings Robert gave to me sometime tomorrow, unless he has them handy.

Yeah, I noticed from other threads and posts (yours and Robert’s specifically) about ground pours. I do have one on top and bottom, I just didn’t set the state to poured in my screenshots. It definitely does make it easier, if I have them set up correctly of course.

 

[Harry Klippton]

The rullywow stuff used switched anode for their LEDs and that's how their library is set up. I made that mistake on the first board I made, and then I stopped using that library

 

[MikeRamsey]

The rullywow stuff used switched anode for their LEDs and that's how their library is set up. I made that mistake on the first board I made, and then I stopped using that library

Hmm. Good to know! Thanks!

 

[Big Monk]

Yeah, I noticed from other threads and posts (yours and Robert’s specifically) about ground pours. I do have one on top and bottom, I just didn’t set the state to poured in my screenshots. It definitely does make it easier, if I have them set up correctly of course.

I just mentioned it because I noticed you hade manually connected grounds, and a few vias from the auto router connecting them.

If you have a ground pour in place, you can delete the ground traces. The pour connects all the grounds together.

 

[Robert]

It looks like C4 might be reversed.

 

[MikeRamsey]

I just mentioned it because I noticed you hade manually connected grounds, and a few vias from the auto router connecting them.

If you have a ground pour in place, you can delete the ground traces. The pour connects all the grounds together.

/facepalm!! I see what you’re saying now. Don’t need those ground traces because they’re connected to the pour. Makes sense!!

 

[MikeRamsey]

It looks like C4 might be reversed.

dammit, yes it is. Uggh. I swear I’m not blind, I think!

Thanks!!