Brian,

Contact Chris Keirstead - Apps. Engineer @ Strataflex Inc. (603)
882-1884.
He can give you & your company some great info ideas.
>
>Regards, Greg.

Gregory E. Bordash,
Senior Technologist PCB Design
ATI Technologies Inc.,
33 Commerce Valley Drive East,
Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, L3T 7N6
Phone:(905) 882-2600 ext: 8370,   Fax: (905) 882-9339
Email: [log in to unmask]




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>From:  BKDoughty1[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Monday, March 30, 1998 10:25 AM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       [DC] Flex Knowledge needed
>
>Good Morning Designers & Tech Heads,
>     I'm in need of some information, and I thought I could ask here. I've
>designed one flex circuit and now they (The powers that be) want to put more
>components on it [Story of my life, I'm sure other designers would agree with
>me].
>     Anyway, If there are any fabricators or anyone in the know out there
>that
>can help me I would appreciate it. I need to thin out my traces to get yet
>another component on my layout but I already have a bottleneck happrening.
>Can
>anyone give me some pointers or tell me how thin traces can go on a flex
>circuit without driving the price up at the board house...I need input. My
>bosses want to know how long this change will take start to finish. I can't
>even tell them how long it will take me to figure out how lonng it will take
>me.......PLEASE HELP
>
>                I Thank anyone in advance for their help and offer them my
>first born  :)
>
>                                Thanks,
>
>                     Brian K. Doughty
>                     Numonics Corporation
>
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