gEDA-user: protoexpress.com and copper thieving

[msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Sokolov)]

Darrell Harmon <dlharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have used the no touch service from http://www.protoexpress.com  They are
> in Sunnyvale, CA, and do good work.

I like their deal, it's the best I have found so far for what I want.
The only remaining concern I need to resolve before I settle on them as
the recipient of my gerbers is the following: back in early 2007 DJ has
posted the following on this list:

> protoexpress auto-adds copper thieving, which would mess up my
> isolation gaps (I've emailed them asking about it).

Is copper thieving the trick whereby the fab adds little isolated copper
squares in places where the customer's gerbers call for a complete
clearing?  Does DJ or anyone else here know if protoexpress still does
that on their "no touch" service or not?

My PCB has a section where the DSL circuit comes in from the phone
company - as that's basically a phone line that can potentially have all
kinds of nastiness on it, I prefer to have good isolation - hence copper
thieving (if I understand the term correctly) would be undesirable in
that area.

MS


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