Mad Professor
Senior Member
Good Day All.
The time has now come for me to move away from BreadBoard & StripBoard designs and start building some of my Circuits to PCB.
I have desided to go the cheaper route for now to see how I get on.
I have just got a small pack of 5 Press N Peel (Blue) Sheets from eBay for just under £11.00, The cheapest I could found at this point in time.
At the same time I brought 500g Ferric Chloride Granules also from eBay for just under £10.00, But royal mail are taking there time.
I have also brought some Single and Double sided Copper-Clad Boards.
I have been looking on the internet for How To's for this Press N Peel, So far I have found the following web sites, and posts.
Web Sites.
Homebrew_PCBs
Techniks - How To
Semis - How to Make PCB's
Forum Posts.
This PCB etching, your feedback?
Making PCB at home - some help needed
PCB's - Iron Transfer Method
PCB Manufacture
I have a LaserJet 1100 Printer, This prints my design onto the blue Iron Transfer just fine no brakes in the tracks ect.
I hope I am printing on the right side of this film, as I am printing onto the coated side, not the plasic side, please tell me this is right, lol.
All the sites I have seen so far say to use your iron at 275F-325F (135c-163c), My iron does not have any temps on the dial just Min to Max.
I 1st tried to Transfer my design to the copper board, I put the iron near max temp, I placed a single sheet of paper onto of the flim, and then placed the iron on, slowly moving the iron about, This melted the Transfer flim, Opps.
I then tried the same with the temp around the half way mark, Pressing the iron quite hard down, wile slowly moving around, for aprox 50-60sec's, I then let the board and flim cool down for aprox 10min's before trying to peel the flim off, When the flim was peeled off not all of the design had Transfered only about 80% of it.
So I am looking for some advice on the best way of doing this, as I don't want to keep wasting all the Transfer Sheets.
I know that getting the right temp is a must, so I am going to try and hunt down a cheep iron with temp settings on it.
Also I have seen on some of the web sites, that you just press and hold the iron on and don't move, some say to cool the board down with water once done.
Can I please have your advice on this one.
Thanks.
The time has now come for me to move away from BreadBoard & StripBoard designs and start building some of my Circuits to PCB.
I have desided to go the cheaper route for now to see how I get on.
I have just got a small pack of 5 Press N Peel (Blue) Sheets from eBay for just under £11.00, The cheapest I could found at this point in time.
At the same time I brought 500g Ferric Chloride Granules also from eBay for just under £10.00, But royal mail are taking there time.
I have also brought some Single and Double sided Copper-Clad Boards.
I have been looking on the internet for How To's for this Press N Peel, So far I have found the following web sites, and posts.
Web Sites.
Homebrew_PCBs
Techniks - How To
Semis - How to Make PCB's
Forum Posts.
This PCB etching, your feedback?
Making PCB at home - some help needed
PCB's - Iron Transfer Method
PCB Manufacture
I have a LaserJet 1100 Printer, This prints my design onto the blue Iron Transfer just fine no brakes in the tracks ect.
I hope I am printing on the right side of this film, as I am printing onto the coated side, not the plasic side, please tell me this is right, lol.
All the sites I have seen so far say to use your iron at 275F-325F (135c-163c), My iron does not have any temps on the dial just Min to Max.
I 1st tried to Transfer my design to the copper board, I put the iron near max temp, I placed a single sheet of paper onto of the flim, and then placed the iron on, slowly moving the iron about, This melted the Transfer flim, Opps.
I then tried the same with the temp around the half way mark, Pressing the iron quite hard down, wile slowly moving around, for aprox 50-60sec's, I then let the board and flim cool down for aprox 10min's before trying to peel the flim off, When the flim was peeled off not all of the design had Transfered only about 80% of it.
So I am looking for some advice on the best way of doing this, as I don't want to keep wasting all the Transfer Sheets.
I know that getting the right temp is a must, so I am going to try and hunt down a cheep iron with temp settings on it.
Also I have seen on some of the web sites, that you just press and hold the iron on and don't move, some say to cool the board down with water once done.
Can I please have your advice on this one.
Thanks.
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