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Knowledge gleaned from failure.
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# PCB Soldering and Prototyping
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# PCB Related
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## Designing
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1. Altium Designer is great! Until it's not...
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1. Adding a new schematic or footprint to a group Altium library (e.g. WarnickShareLibrary) must be designed outside the library first. Then when complete, copy/paste it into the group library. This prevents multiple users from working in the same library and overwriting/losing each others' changes.
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1. Check the export to Gerber files carefully, epecially holes and solder mask layers.
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1. Get another student to review your PCB before having it sent out. Many errors are caught this way.
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## Soldering and Prototyping
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1. Flux is your friend
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1. Use leaded solder - it has a lower melting temperature and makes rework much easier for prototype boards, especially with small pitch sizes on pads.
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