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PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you

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284 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 30 Jan 25 04:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yujzgzc ◴[30 Jan 25 09:43 UTC] No.42876366[source]▶
All I know is that it makes it very hard to solder anything to ground with my cheap underpowered soldering iron
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1. mikeInAlaska ◴[30 Jan 25 18:29 UTC] No.42880623[source]▶
I switched away from full solid copper floods due to this. (Even with nice soldering equipment.) I still use full size floods but they are more like basket-weave patterns, probably 50% copper. I rotate the pattern on my second inner plane.