We have used different colours to identify otherwise near-identical pcbs.
e.g - Red = Engineering Prototype, Blue = UL version, Green = standard
production..

RP


> From:         Andrew Seddon[SMTP:andrew.seddon@CAMSIG.CO.UK]
> Sent:         Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:34 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      [EE]: Multi-color solder mask

> 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

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