{"id":353,"date":"2015-03-18T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-03-18T22:46:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:46:33","slug":"the-igbt-driver-board-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/the-igbt-driver-board-is-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"The IGBT Driver Board is ready!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The completed PCB arrived from <a title=\"ragworm\" href=\"http:\/\/ragworm.eu\" target=\"_blank\">Ragworm <\/a>on Saturday, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with the end result. The board arrived vacuum packed into bubble-wrap, with a couple of free LEDs thrown in (and some orange paper hearts!)\u00a0Here&#8217;s a view of the top surface:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_top.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_top.png\" alt=\"PCB Top Surface\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_top.png 710w, https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_top-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think this\u00a0\u00a0looks pretty good for a first version. The silk-screen looks\u00a0very slightly offset (see JP2, JP3) but nothing to worry about. Here&#8217;s the underside of the board:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_bot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-359\" src=\"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_bot.png\" alt=\"PCB Bottom Surface\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_bot.png 710w, https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_bot-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I made a start on assembling the board. I was relieved to find that all the components fitted fine, with no obvious layout errors. Unfortunately, I was missing one component (5mm pitch screw terminals for the mains input), so it&#8217;s time to place another order!\u00a0Here&#8217;s the partially assembled board:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_assem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_assem.jpg\" alt=\"PCB Assembly\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_assem.jpg 800w, https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/esp_igbt_pcb_assem-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The completed PCB arrived from Ragworm on Saturday, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with the end result. The board arrived vacuum packed into bubble-wrap, with a couple of free LEDs thrown in (and some orange paper hearts!)\u00a0Here&#8217;s a view of the top surface: I think this\u00a0\u00a0looks pretty good for a first version. The silk-screen looks\u00a0very slightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/the-igbt-driver-board-is-ready\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The IGBT Driver Board is ready!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/int03.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}