I did promise this project would be non-linear and so it is turning out! I complete parts of the project as I find the time, and to be totally honest, as the fancy takes me. It’s my project and my spare time, after all.
Anyway, after learning that I shouldn’t use a very hot soldering iron on my original start light LED clusters, I went back to the drawing board and decided to make them as large as possible within the 5cm x 5cm limit I had set myself (this is the limit of PCB size that most of the Chinese PCB manufacturers will do for $10!). So here’s the bare board:
And here’s one populated with components:
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