Re: gEDA-user: translucent tracks in PCB-head!

2011-05-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> These are TDA2030 that drive the peltier -- These are reliable, powerful > and and cheap. To tap their power, they need to be screwed to a sizable > cooler. My motor controller is like that. You just can't expect one chip to drive a 7 HP motor without getting a little warm... ___

Re: gEDA-user: translucent tracks in PCB-head!

2011-05-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
yamazakir2 wrote: > why do you have a through hole ic These are TDA2030 that drive the peltier -- These are reliable, powerful and and cheap. To tap their power, they need to be screwed to a sizable cooler. 15 W heat cannot be easily dissipated into a copper polygon plane. ---<)kaimartin(>-

Re: gEDA-user: translucent tracks in PCB-head!

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Oldbury
I find it immensely useful, even on a 2-layer board, but when routing a 4-layer board it made it so much easier. I used to have to check all the layers, even the ones with planes, to see if I had hit another layer. Thanks Peter. ___ geda-use

Re: gEDA-user: translucent tracks in PCB-head!

2011-05-20 Thread Evan Foss
Yea!! This is fantastic! On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Hi. > A few minutes ago, I fetched the latest PCB sources from git and recompiled. > Surprise: The resulting binary includes translucent tracks and polygons! > This is both, beautiful and very useful. See the atta

Re: gEDA-user: translucent tracks in PCB-head!

2011-05-20 Thread yamazakir2
why do you have a through hole ic On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Hi. > A few minutes ago, I fetched the latest PCB sources from git and recompiled. > Surprise: The resulting binary includes translucent tracks and polygons! > This is both, beautiful and very useful. Se

Re: gEDA-user: translucent tracks in PCB-head!

2011-05-20 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Fri, 20 May 2011 21:02:51 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Hi. > A few minutes ago, I fetched the latest PCB sources from git and > recompiled. Surprise: The resulting binary includes translucent tracks and > polygons! This is both, beautiful and very useful. See the attached > screenshot. Some