> Seriously, of course you need to give special consideration 
> to everything
> where such currents flow. Why do you think the soldering is a special
> problem, though? Of course assuming that the pins of a 
> connector that's
> made for that current are thick enough to carry it.

I am no expert at high currents (I am more into bits and bytes), so
don't trust my intuition. My fear was: no matter how wide you make the
PCB traces, all the current has to pass through each circle surrounding
the connector pin (assuming the connection is a pin), as fars as these
circles are not covered by solder (in which case the solder would
probably take a large share of the current). When the soldered area is
small the smallest such circle is also small.

Am I seeing ghosts?

Wouter van Ooijen

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