http://www.cas-harwin.com/catalog/smt_jumper_link.asp

Check these out... I never used them but they do look intriguing....

Bill Brooks



-----Original Message-----
From: Volkmar Huss [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:55 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] SMT Jumpers


"Kozlyk, Terry" wrote:

> Just curious....how does your contract manufacturer take to any traces
> under 0603 & 1206 resistors ??
>
> Ours complains because of the risk of tomb-stoning when any feature,
> such as silkscreen, vias, traces are under these descretes
> .....again..." in search of an ideal world ".....
>
> Regards
> TDK

We don't allow silkscreen or vias under discrete SMDs, but traces are not a
problem. The soldermask  adds only about 1mil to the height of the traces,
compared to the height of solderpaste of about 4mils.


     Volkmar

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