gEDA-user: radial pkg advice

[gene glick <carzrgr8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the specs for a radial leaded capacitor:

7.5mm lead spacing, +/- 0.4mm
lead diameter, phi =  0.5mm

What makes more sense for pcb layout:

1) Go with the spec as-is, and squeeze the leads into board if spacing 
is off nominal.

2) Use 7.5mm spacing with large holes to accommodate the tolerance.  I 
figure the max spacing is 7.5 + 0.4 + (0.5*phi) = 8.1mm and
minimum spacing is 7.5 - 0.4 - (0.5*phi) = 6.85mm
So a hole size of (8.1 - 6.85)= 1.25mm should let the cap just drop 
right in for all cases, yes?  Would it be too sloppy though?

regards

gene



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