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Reflection and Transmission Densitometer for Photographic Darkroom Use
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Update main board LED footprints #22

Closed dkonigsberg closed 2 years ago

dkonigsberg commented 2 years ago

Based on the LED footprint change implemented in 9851340418bfb13fbbd49bb30c915e6bca7cbed2 in an effort to resolve #14, the footprints for the LEDs on the main board should be changed as well. Its less necessary there, due to the lower drive current, but still not a bad idea.

Most likely this will involve having two versions of the LED footprint in use within the project:

  1. Transmission board LED footprint (9851340418bfb13fbbd49bb30c915e6bca7cbed2) that maximizes heat sinking by having copper on both sides of the PCB connected by vias.
  2. Main board LED footprint that just adds the "H" pattern to the thermal pad, without going through the PCB. This is to avoid cutting ground and power planes below the LED, which exist on the main board but not on the transmission board.

Doing this cleanly could involve some footprint naming changes that update the metadata of the Rev B transmission PCB, but shouldn't have any effect on its actual design or layout. As such, its revision code is unlikely to change.