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Offline trekiej

Re: Best way to make home made PCBs?
« on: November 25, 2007, 06:37:50 AM »
I hope this is not too far off topic.
Is making multilayer boards a matter or sandwiching two boards together with an insulator in between?
Is it something more involved?  Does anyone know of a good book on the subject?
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Offline trekiej

Re: Best way to make home made PCBs?
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2007, 05:40:44 PM »
Thanks, I plan on doing my own electrolysis .  I am not for sure what the thickness of the substrate is.
I want to use about .030 inch for the upper and lower layers.  I would vacuum bag it before I apply copper.

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Offline trekiej

Re: Best way to make home made PCBs?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2007, 02:51:26 AM »
I do not know if .030 thick boards can be found with dual copper already applied.
www.thinktink.com talks about the process of making boards,including multilayer. A copper spray is used to make the boards conductive and then it is plated.
I was planning to make my own boards with acid copper electrolysis.
It will be a while before I can give some real experience info.

edit: Nov.30,2007
Sorry, I am still in the experimental stage myself.
Does anyone sell .030 inch double sided boards on the web?
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Offline trekiej

Re: Best way to make home made PCBs?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2007, 01:56:22 AM »
@ Oliver
I guess it depends on how thick you want your board to be.
Have you made 4 layer boards before?
I wonder how one would judge the density of the circuits before needing multilayers.
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Offline trekiej

Re: Best way to make home made PCBs?
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2007, 02:48:09 AM »
@ Tonyyeb
Sorry to have taken over the thread.
@Oliver
I wish I could get two high density FPGA chips on a mATX or standard ATX board for building a new computer.
As far as 4 layer board are concerned,  the blind vias, I believe, are electro-plated and have contact pads between boards that dig into each other between each layer( thinktink).  
If a board was layered A,B on the first board and  C,D on the next board, I could connect A to B and C to D then A to D. Edit:  I bet I would have to make sure the two boards were good before I joined them.
What do you think?  
I do not know much about signal integrity and noise and other related physics to really be of help.
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