Re: gEDA-user: choosing power MOSFET's

2006-09-29 Thread ptay
>> q=it(gate charge rule of thumb) make t << Tpwm to reduce heating. expect to blow some significant power in the driver stage. phil ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: silk exclusion (was [pcb] MinMaskGap action )

2006-09-21 Thread ptay
joeft wrote: Phil, You didn't mention whether this was "incidental" silkscreen like a "ElementLine" that overlapped the pad or something related to the pad itself.. A previous version of pcb would in some cases generate silkscreen rectangles in the gerber output on some surface mount pads

Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] MinMaskGap action

2006-09-21 Thread ptay
DJ Delorie wrote: What you want is a DRC check that silk shouldn't overlap mask openings. Precisely -- maybe PCB already does this (?), a year ago it did not appear to. I suspect it runs into the complication of the mask exclusion layer situation, one of the things that PCB cannot do intu

Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] MinMaskGap action

2006-09-21 Thread ptay
DJ, About a year ago I got some boards back with silkscreen printed over some pads. Since, I've manually kept the silkscreen off the pads. ... Does MinMaskGap work on silk too? Phil DJ Delorie wrote: F.1.41 MinMaskGap MinMaskGap(delta) MinMaskGap(Selected, delta) Ensures the mask i

Re: gEDA-user: Creating SMT element in PCB

2006-09-21 Thread ptay
Vaughn Treude wrote: pads into something the program would understand. It sure would be cool if you could create pads using the rectangle tool. There is the sheet explaining the footprints I read to learn the footprints ... you learn it and writing footprints by hand is pretty easy until

Re: gEDA-user: PCB footprint center mark view?

2006-09-13 Thread ptay
DJ Delorie wrote: In running PCB 20060822, I can't seem to show the center diamond mark of my footprints? How can I turn this feature 'on'? I just re-added this. Wow thanks, DJ! phil ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http:

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: I'm having trouble getting traces to contact some pads

2006-08-30 Thread ptay
Frazer Williams wrote: Thank you, thank you, thank you. The last paragraph (about not ending a refdes with a lower case letter) was the trick! I don't think I would have ever figured that one out on my own. I suggest putting this suggestion in the pcb_tips item Stuart pointed out to me: htt

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Manual

2006-08-26 Thread ptay
McMahill wrote: ptay wrote: Last I heard there was some work being done on the PCB manual. From sourceforge I'm led to here: http://pcb.sourceforge.net/manual.html But I can't tell if this reflects the newest version. Is this it? Phil There are 3 versions linked to on that page

gEDA-user: PCB Manual

2006-08-25 Thread ptay
Last I heard there was some work being done on the PCB manual. From sourceforge I'm led to here: http://pcb.sourceforge.net/manual.html But I can't tell if this reflects the newest version. Is this it? Phil ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Auto-Router Misroutes

2006-07-03 Thread ptay
Steve, Not sure if it's the prob. you're seeing now, but the only time I could get the router on 1.99 to connect different nets was when it'd put the beginnning of a trace on a pin/via and then not route the line. The problem is that if it does this on the wrong layer, say one with a ground