First OSH Park PCB Samples

gunrunnerjohnOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

I received my first boards from OSH Park today. I was curious how they'd ship them, they're in a padded envelope just flopping around loose. That's not an issue, just an observation.

My initial assessment is they're decent quality boards. A couple of nits. They didn't clean off the nubs from the panelization very well, and the exposed gold plated copper is not tinned. It remains to be seen if I'll have any issue soldering to them, but I suspect not. These three are certainly worth the $4 I paid for them.

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10/6/162:56 PM

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stan2004OGR Forum Member

Could be just my PC screen but is that soldermask blue? I thought OSH Park used purple as sort of a signature...though I read comments purple makes it hard to see the underlying traces for troubleshooting or rework.

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gunrunnerjohnOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

They are purple, but it's darker than the pictures on the website. It is harder to see the traces, maybe the thinner boards with the 2oz copper will have more definition of the traces, they'll be taller in profile.

You'll also notice if you look closely, I screwed up on the connector footprint! I don't know what happened, but I ended up picking the wrong spacing, so I'm waiting on another set of boards. A little delay in producing these reset generators.