What are Aluminum PCBs?

Also known as metal base PCBs, aluminum based PCBs comprise metal based laminates that are covered by copper foil circuit layers. They are constructed utilizing alloy plates, which consist of a combination of Aluminum, Magnesium, and Silumin (Al-Mg-Si). These PCBs are known for their beneficial features such as electrical insulation, good thermal potential, and high machining performance.

Aluminum PCBs differ slightly from general PCBs. The structure of this PCB comprises:

Base Layer: This layer consists of an aluminum alloy substrate. The use of aluminum makes this PCB an excellent choice for PTH technology. Holes can be cut, punched, or drilled to the requisite sizes.

Insulation Layer: While the base layer is certainly important, the thermal insulation layer is a critical component of this PCB. It consists of a special ceramic polymer, which has excellent viscoelastic properties and thermal resistance. The insulation layer also protects the PCB from thermal and mechanical stresses.

Circuit Layer: This layer comprises the copper foil mentioned earlier. Generally, PCB manufacturers utilize thick copper foils, which can range from 1oz to 10oz.

There are certain materials and processes that can be used to augment the performance of the PCB. These include gold plated HAL, lead free RoHS assembly processes, immersion gold silkscreen, and OSP anti-oxidation processes.

While aluminum PCBs consist of the same width and thickness as FR4 PCBs, the alloy plate allows the PCB to increase its conductivity to 2.0. Also, it can carry higher currents and withstand up to 4,500 volts of electricity.

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Layers

The cheapest PCBs are single sided boards. This means that they are just made of the base material, with a single sheet of metal over the top.
Single sided boards are incredibly easy to work with, if you are making your own PCB at home you will most likely be designing for a single sided board.
While the single sided boards are simple to manufacture and understand, they can also be a pain when laying out your PCB. Since you only have one layer of metal to work with, you cannot cross electrical connections without the help of some external jumper.
As a result of this complication the majority of simple commercial and hobbyist boards are created on double sided PCBs. On a double sided PCB it is a simple matter to cross electrical connections and this fact allows for more complex yet elegant design.
For all but the simplest of designs I recommend designing for a double sided PCB. This is generally the most cost effective method that will leave you with the least headache possible.
As designs become even more complex, it may even become necessary to add additional layers to your design. This can be useful if your board has incredibly complex signal paths or if you are aiming for a compact design.
For the majority of users I do not recommend using more than two layers, if you do this and do not need to you will end up with an unnecessarily complex design that will cost more to produce.

Following will be continued in next chapter.

Shirley Xia
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Wonderful PCB

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Booth：A3.274-1，2014.11.11-2014.11.14，the Electronica in Munich, Germany

How to communicate with customers in the trade show

To ask more and listen more to get what customer need.
In fact, in the show, the audience came to the booth is not necessarily talk about the business, to be an exhibitor you need to ask more about what help they need, listen more about the issues raised by customers about the products.
As an exhibitor should do what points: First, to know that your guests what kinds of requirements they need about the product. Second, if they do not understand the product, we must follow our own ideas to guide guests. Of course, if you already make an appointment before the show with a good client, before the customer to view exhibitions, it is necessary for you to get a detailed understanding of the product, then we can give customers a satisfactory answer.
"Positive question" is nothing new. Before seeking for the understanding from others, you have to understand others. Before responding to the customer's words, you need to make sure you have already understood their words.
The basic strategy of "positive question" behind is the "safe zone" concept. It enables you to search for specific information which can be quantified, such as what the client's goals are, what his selection criteria, which he hopes to quantifiable gains, what's evaluation system he uses. As a result, customers will treat you as a real expert.

Following will be continued in next chapter.
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Printed Circuit Board Words

PCB prototype, MOQ 1PCS, Delivery time fastest 1day

   CNC drilling, cutting edge, light painting, etching production process, only for less demanding customers, providing fast, cheap proofing services. No drilling metal plating, no character screen (single layer PCB can be printed in black silkscreen ), solder green oil, only suitable for the experiment, manual welding, can also be used to check for errors before production. Because no drilling metal plating, double panel vias problem Check "vias solution", or modify files, avoiding component pins and vias, shop may be able to modify the file, because vias can resolve threading welded at both ends, but if the pin element and vias, there may be elements blocked welding end less, so to avoid component pins and vias; pad line to be set a little rough, welding is best to use low-temperature solder (shop for sale ). Recommended not to do, of course, if a lot of your money, we do not oppose the demanding user is recommended to do the whole process. 16:30 hours before delivery traded at 22:00, 16:30, if the transaction had to be postponed until 22:00 the next day will delivery. Do not take different type in a panel.

Technical indicators are as follows:
Layers (maximum) 1-30
Panel type FR-4
The maximum size of 500mm X1100mm
Accuracy ± 0.2mm Dimensions
Thickness range of 0.40mm - 2.4mm
Thickness tolerances (t ≥ 0.8mm) ± 10%
Thickness tolerances (t <0.8mm) ± 10%
Media thickness 0.075mm - 5.00mm
The minimum width 6mil
Minimum spacing 6mil
35um thick outer layer of copper
Inner copper thickness 17um - 100um
Drilling aperture (ROP) 0.3mm - 6.35mm
Into the hole diameter (drilling) 0.3mm - 6.30mm
Diameter tolerance (ROP) 0.08mm
Diameter tolerance (ROP) 0.09mm
Thickness aperture ratio 8: 1
Solder type photographic ink
The minimum width of 0.1mm solder bridge

Sophie Deng
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Wonderful PCB Limited
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Welcome to our trading shows:
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2.Booth: 11J36, HK Global sources  Apr.12-15th, 2013 Asia World-Expo, Hong Kong
3.Booth: 9J35, HK Global sources Oct.12-15th,2013 Asia World-Expo, Hong Kong
4.Booth: 70206, CES  2014  Jan,8th-11th in Las Vegas, USA

Repairing printed circuit boards - tips by Exception PCB

PCBs, or printed circuit boards, have revolutionised the electronic industry; however they lack the robustness of the earlier, steel-chassis, hardwired equipment, driving them to be much easier to crack. Restoring a circuit board needs a particular level of analytical ability, along with the skill to handle each element in the correct way.

Without having a thorough knowledge of the way a circuit board works, experts from Exception PCB express that diagnosing the trouble will be a problem. For PCBs that are especially complex, you might also need an oscilloscope to discover signals at different points, so as to discover the section which is creating the problem. Once this component has been discovered, it will then have to be replaced. Here, Exception PCB provides you with a brief guide on how to do this.

As outlined by Exception PCB, with the majority of passive (and occasionally active) components, a similar, as opposed to an exact copy of the broken element can be used as a replacement. You will find, for example, several unique versions of voltage regulators available, and one version can easily be swapped for another in a PCB. However, broken active components that have a very specific function (for example, audio amplifier chips) must be replaced with an exact copy.

After you have acquired the right replacement, you'll have to place the PCB on a flat surface for the fix. Exception PCB says that you might use tape to stick the board on both sides to the surface, to ensure that it doesn't move whilst you are carrying out the replacement. Pull the damaged component off the board very delicately, using tweezers. Next, switch on your soldering iron and set it to about 400 degrees Celsius.

Take some copper wire and put it on the pads of the PCB where the component was, and use the soldering iron to heat it. Wonderful pcb that any surplus solder remaining on these pads could be absorbed by the copper. Get in line the leads of the replacement component with the board's pads, taking a look at to make sure that the element is aligned as it needs to be. Then, use the soldering iron and the solder to join the leads with the corresponding pads on the board.

Multilayer PCB design method (Z)

11.4.2 The electrical layer segmentation method
(3) Click in figure 11 - 15 electricity layer segmentation OK button in the dialog box, enter into the state of network area box drawing. Electric layer frame in the drawing, the user generally will be other levels of information hiding, only show the current editor in electric layer, convenient for frame drawing. Select the [Tools] / [Preference..] command, pop-up dialog box shown in figure 11-16. Select the Display options, and then choose the Single layer mode check box, as shown in figure 11-16. So, in addition to the current working layer power, the remaining layers are hidden, display as shown in figure 11-17.


Electric layer within the division, because the integral area will all the network's pin and welding plate are included, so users often need to know the pins with the same name with the power supply network and the distribution of welding plate, for segmentation. On the left side of the tool, select the VCC network browse PCB (as shown in figure 11 to 18), click the select button will light up the network selection.

As shown in figure 11-19 for the VCC network lit after selection, network Numbers as VCC welding plate and pin with other network label welding plate and pin.  Select the network after the welding of the same name, when drawing the boundary can be these pads are eating into the division of the region. At this time the power network can not through signal layer of attachment but directly through the welding plate is connected to the electrode layer.


Ms Grace Zhang
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WonderfuI Printed Circuit Board

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     On the insulating substrate, according to a predetermined design, made of printed wiring assemblies, printer, or combination of both conductive patterns, known as a printed circuit. On the insulating substrate, the electrical connection between the conductive patterns provided components, known as printed wiring. It does not include printed components. Printed circuit or printed circuit board called the finished printed circuit board, or Aluminum pcb, also known as printing plates used in printing plates in accordance with rigid or flexible substrates can be divided into two categories: rigid printed scrubbing brush and a flexible printed board. this is also rigidly --- flex printed board has occurred according to the conductor pattern layers can be divided into single-sided, double-sided and multilayer printed board and the entire outer surface of the conductor pattern surface of the substrate on the same plane printed board, called flat printing plate.
     After the electronic equipment used printing plates, printing plates because of similar consistency, thus avoiding the manual wiring errors, and can realize automatic insertion of electronic components or mount, automatic soldering, automatic testing to ensure the quality of the electronic equipment to improve labor productivity, reduce costs, and ease of maintenance. printing plates from development to single-sided, multi-layer and flexible, and still protect the respective trends. due to continuous high-precision, high density and high reliability direction, shrinking volume, reduce costs, making printing plates in the future development of the electronic device, remains strong vitality.
     FR-4 (flame resistant laminated sheet), is based on "fiberglass cloth" as the backbone of impregnation liquid flame resistance "epoxy" as a binding agent made the film, and then laminated plates made of various thickness. The so-called V-1 refers to 0.5 inches wide and 5 inches long, informal sample thickness of copper-free glass epoxy substrate of the order of 45 ° oblique after burning flame burning on a particular, and that is to remove the source of fire measured in seconds of its spread, let it put out before making a whole continued to burn. After ten consecutive test firing, the total number of seconds to less than 250 seconds were spread called V-1 grade FR-4, less than 50 seconds are known as V-0 grade FR-4.

Sophie Deng
_______________________________________
Wonderful PCB Limited
NO.32A,Building NO.1, XianDaiC hengHuaTing,ChuangYeRoad|NanShan District,ShenZhen City 518054|  China  T +86-755-86229518-806 | F  +86 755 2607 3529|  e  wonderful08@wonderfulpcb.com |
w  www.wonderfulpcb.com  | Skype:wonderful-07   |                                                   
Welcome to our trading shows:
1.Booth: L32,Expo Electronic 2013,Apr.10-12th in CROCUS EXPO,Moscow,Russia
2.Booth: 11J36, HK Global sources  Apr.12-15th, 2013 Asia World-Expo, Hong Kong
3.Booth: 9J35, HK Global sources Oct.12-15th,2013 Asia World-Expo, Hong Kong
4.Booth: 70206, CES  2014  Jan,8th-11th in Las Vegas, USA