Re: gEDA-user: Thermal via in pad

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ is absolutely correct.

Steve M.

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:43 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > If that's impossible, what would be a good workaround?
> 
> Put in a via without a thermal.  The only reason you'd need a thermal
> is if you're hand soldering it, and even then you'd just need a bigger
> iron tip.  Wave soldering might have a problem with it too, but reflow
> soldering (the only way to solder that pad *anyway*) won't because
> that heats up the inner layers also.
> 
> > If I undestand Darrel correctly than attaching the via without
> > thermal is still an option...
> 
> Yes.  Do that :-) In fact, do it a couple of times, to make a better
> heatsink.
> 
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