The Protoboard Chronicles: The Replacement Fuzz

[mdc]

If you've not watched the Effects Layouts youtube videos on PCB layout/eagleCAD/etc you should check them out. I'm not sure how similar diptrace and eaglecad are, but a lot of the principles will undoubtedly carry over.

 

[Big Monk]

If you've not watched the Effects Layouts youtube videos on PCB layout/eagleCAD/etc you should check them out. I'm not sure how similar diptrace and eaglecad are, but a lot of the principles will undoubtedly carry over.

Welp, your post made me go into DipTrace and finally try a 2 Sided design. Pretty sweet stuff.

 

[mdc]

It's a fun jigsaw puzzle.

 

[Big Monk]

It's a fun jigsaw puzzle.

I did a “Save As” with my completed design and then shrunk it a bit by moving the I/O to the top and move some troublesome connections to the top.

I may start from scratch with 2 sides in mind and see what I can do.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Any reason you don’t have any thermal relief for the grounded pot pins?

 

[Big Monk]

Any reason you don’t have any thermal relief for the grounded pot pins?

I’m not gonna lie: I have no idea what you mean!

EDIT: The understand what you mean now. Honestly, I hadn’t thought of it because this will be the first board I’ve made using a copper pour. I’ll incorporate the thermal relief before finalizing!

 

[Big Monk]

@Bricksnbeatles

Went back in this morning and deleted the copper pour then re-poured with 4 spoke thermal relief!

Good catch and thanks for the tip!

 

[Big Monk]

So, revised layouts. Added ground pours on both sides with thermal relief: