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• Designing Coils for PCB

  Ray Olsen • 03/08/2019 at 04:56 • 0 comments

  I really just wanted to jump into this project, mainly with out thinking/looking

  I've seen [Carl]'s projects hear and some of his progress on twitter.  I popped open EagleCAD and went straight for the ULP's.  

  spiral-coil.ulp

  copying the spec's from the original:
  

  I went with 0.5 mm for the width and 30 turns as specified 

  I used 0.2 spacing as that is the minimum for flexible PCB from OSHpark

  Which dumped out this:

  I wasn't sure if i was going to be able to line up the vias since Eagle is a baby.  I am going to look into separating this as well as spacing out the center to make a more usable coil for metal detecting.

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• Project Page Creation

  Ray Olsen • 03/08/2019 at 04:34 • 0 comments

  1. Created page
  2. Added reference files
  3. Added new schematic design

  Todo

  • Get PCB made
  • Test Components
  • Create Detailed BOM
  • Create Tindie Page
  • Modify Design
  • Iterate

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