Dirty PCBs are dirty

Published on 2015-06-09 in Tote.

For everyone who have ordered the PCB for Tote from Dirty PCBs just a quick note. Remember, that it’s the cut-throat cheap prototyping boards, and mistakes do happen. They are often simple to work around, but do test your boards for shorts before soldering anything or, especially, connecting a battery to the soldered board. I just had another batch arrive, and there is a small mistake on them:

The pads for the optional SMD capacitor are covered in soldermask, so you have to scratch them out before soldering the capacitor, if you want to have battery voltage monitoring, that is.