Power and ground planes?

[trm]

 

[Mitchell Gant]

Do I detect a hint of hatred for them here?

Do you dislike the benefits that copper planes bring? Like low impedances especially at RF frequencies, to reduce noise and logic glitches?

Or the improved heat transfer to reduce local hotspots around IC's?

Or the enviromental advantages of less copper being etched off the PCB during manufacture and poured down drains... I mean disposed of ?

I bet it's just the **SLIGHTLY** increased difficulty of desoldering a device from a board with planes isn't it? Hmm??

 

[trm]

Damn you for countering my objection with logic and reasoning

I'm being killed at the moment by the 4 square kilometers of copper in Sega boards which is giving me flashbacks to some Konami stuff. I started with a thermic lance, got nowhere fast and finally switched on my hydrogen fusion device (I went past parity btw by feeding it SF2 bootlegs) and that's still struggling.

I'm pretty sure there is a very large chunk of what used to be underground Zimbabwe slapped between the fibre glass of this board.

 

[guddler]

Is that what you're trying to desolder with your desoldering station??? If so, it's not the best measures of whether you can use a desolder station OK or not as those planes are a right bugger.

 

[trm]

Nope, the desolder station problems are on almost everything I've ever tried it on. I started the thread last night because I was having so much "fun" with Wonder Boy and I was looking wistfully at my actual desolderstation which is meant to make this easier