Re: gEDA-user: Flex Circuits?

[Stephen Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In general doing a flex circuit board is the same as doing a ridged 
ciruit. You design the schematic, generate the netlist, lay out the board.

There are challenges in the details. A flex circuit which is only going 
to be bent once such as cramming it into a container to make a cell 
phone is different then the flex circuit that controlls the printer head 
of an ink jet printer (thousands of cycles of flexing).

Do you want flex just for being light weight? Are you thinking that just 
a thin board is lighter or are you trying to eliminate connectors?

Steve Meier


Bob Paddock wrote:

> Anyone have any insights into doing Flex Circuits?
>
> Are there any prototype house that do Flex?
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> The goal here is to make a high voltage power supply that
> weighs nothing.  Any insights to that as well?
>
> The application is a self contained 'Lifter':
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> http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/perf.htm
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