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A high current power supply built around a server voltage regulator

A high current power supply built around a server voltage regulator

PCB manufacturing

 

It’s the usual procedure to get these boards built. Generate the gerbers, upload to your favourite Chinese prototype manufacturer and wait however long you’re willing to pay for delivery.

For two layer boards such as these I think all the board houses such as Seeed, ITead, Elecrow and PCBWay are all much the same so I went with PCBWay as I’ve been using them recently and have found their quality to be great and their standard delivery seems to be a little quicker than some of the others, although it’s still at least two weeks.

I went with a green PCB to match the colour of the NXA66 module that will be plugged into it. For through hole designs I’m rather partial to white but in this case I think it would clash too much with the green of the NXA66 so green it is.



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The designs were uploaded, I went on holiday and by the time I got back they were in my letterbox waiting for me. Let’s see how they look.

I think they’re looking great. No manufacturing flaws were expected because I wasn’t pushing any of the published limits and a quick once-over under a magnifying glass didn’t show up any problems. Time to assemble a board and do some testing.

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