On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:04:37 -0500, you wrote:

>>
>> > Does anybody know of a PCB house that can do multi coloured, =
patterned
>> > soldermasks on PCB`s ala. Looks very cool!
>>
>> >
>http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-parallax_cyclone_smrtp
>> > ck.html
>>
>> I always thought that solder masks were introduced to prevent solder
>bridges
>> on wave soldered boards. Why are they even needed in any color for =
hand
>> soldered boards?
>>
>> John Power
>>
>
>Having it in "some" color (instead of clear) is just good practice for
>inspectability, i.e.. If it's green, then it has soldermask.
>
>As for multi-color and such, as stated above "Looks very cool!"
>
>-Denny

..and can occasionally be useful - a customer of mine uses a white mask =
to reflect light from a
zenon tube. I have also seen black masks used for better appearence =
through a display window.=20

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