Re: gEDA-user: Electrical testing of pcb boards

["Mark Rages" <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dave N6NZ wrote (Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:31:27 -0700):
>
>>155 in^2 for $99, no electrical testing, "max 15% failure rate"
>>and for $20 more you can get them all electrically tested.
>
> I was wondering for long time how this "electrical testing" works.
> I think they will do it with conducting probes, but which data do they
> use for positioning the probes?
>
> Do they use the gerber files exported from pcb, or do they need
> additional files?
>
> Thanks in advance for clarification.
>
> Stefan Salewski
>

I assume they use the gerbers for positioning the probes.

According to Bob Pease, they just test the boards against one another,
rather than extracting connection information from the design files.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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