a small surface mount pad that is a test point for minimal testing or other stuff is good as well, especially if you want to make a bead of nails testing jig.
Steve On Sep 16, 2007, at 4:33 PM, John Luciani wrote:
On 9/16/07, Randall Nortman <geda-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Seems a trivial thing, but what do you all use as a footprint for testpoints on the board? I'm just looking for something I can stick a meter probe onto easily, and maybe solder a wire onto if I need tomodify the circuit in an unanticipated way. I am thinking that either a fairly fat pin (which will end up plated through) or just a circularSMT pad would be about right -- and how do I make a circular SMT pad? I guess a square pad would be fine except for aesthetics andexpectations. If anybody has a ready-made footprint, I'd appreciate apointer to it. (I searched on gedasymbols.org and didn't find any footprints -- though DJ did have an appropriate gschem symbol.)I usually use the footprint CON_TP__Vector_K24 which is for a Vector K24 pin. I also have footprints for the Keystone 5000, 5005 and 5010 test points.They are under the connector heading at http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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