Re: gEDA-user: vertical resistor footprint

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:18:27 -0700, David Griffith wrote:

> For those of you who want to cram even more onto a board by mounting
> through-hole resistors vertically (ref the P112 board kit), here's a new
> gEDA footprint for that:
> 
> http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/david_griffith/footprints/R025_vert.fp
> 
> I thought someone already made one, 

I did:
http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/kai_martin_knaak/footprints/discrete/Resistor_thru_vertical2.fp
But I hosed the link in my index --Doh!. Now, the link is fixed..

> but I couldn't find it.  Please let me know what you think.

You put the resistor on the other side :-)
At my former day-job, lots of older projects had vertical resistors.
I think it was their way to avoid SMD as long as posssible.  

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