"Roy J. Tellason" bravely wrote to "WILLIAM KITCHEN"
(13 Sep 03  12:05:49)
 --- on the heady topic of "VEHICLE LED'S"

 RJT> I'll figure something out.  I haven't played with any of these yet,
 RJT> and am looking forward to getting around to it.
 RJT> One of the nice things is the board they're on,  I can hold it up to
 RJT> light and see traces through it,  which makes it easy to see some
 RJT> aspects of things.  And which pin is which is also marked,  as well as
 RJT> some other stuff.  Should make some aspects of this stuff easier...

They used to make stuff of much better fiberglass boards. Today it's the
cheap epoxy painted green to make it look like the fiberglass. The
traces come off so fast if you even just look at them cross when you try
to desolder anything. And hardly any silkscreened labels, IBM boards are
the worst with secret codes for everything. I mean they actually go to
the trouble of renumbering common parts to their own internal numbers.
The real cherry on top is the damned smt devices which have one or two
letter codes or none at all. I think they could have used colour dots or
stripes instead and had more room for it instead of impossible to read
letters.

 Mike
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