IMHO, it is worthwhile even to have the GND fill only at the edges.


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From: "Josh Koffman" <listsjosh@3MTMP.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Ground Plane Question (sorry)


> Unfortunately, there isn't room to run another trace in. What I am going
> to do is look over some printouts that I made that are larger scale.
> Then I will be able to see if I can shuffle stuff around and end up with
> enough of a gap to put a pour in. I just wanted to know if it's worth
> the effort.
>
> Josh
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> Jesse Lackey wrote:
> > Why are you sorry to ask a good EE question?
> > What I did in a situation like this was to drop a via (I'm using eagle),
> > call is GND, and then route from a ground pin to the via.  Then the fill
> > could get its way into areas that it couldn't reach otherwise.  My
> > isolation distance for most designs is in the 20mil range, though 10 mil
> > is undoubtedly fine even if hand-soldering if the boards are made at a
> > boardhouse (as opposed to handmade).
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