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I'm currently designing an open source actuator that will make it easier for people to get started with robotics. After designing a PCB for this project, I excitedly posted it online and was repeatedly told that I had committed an unforgivable electronics sin -- MY CIRCUIT BOARD TRACES WERE TOO THIN! This feedback made me wonder -- how do you properly size circuit board traces? With some help from circuit boards from PCBWay and a thermal imaging camera from Banggood.com, I set out to answer this question once and for all so that future boards would not accidentally catch on fire!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:48 Joule Heating: It's Getting Hot in Herre...
2:49 How Wide Should a PCB Trace Be?
3:51 Time to Make Some Printed Circuit Boards!
5:00 Testing IPC-2221 Trace Width Accuracy
6:50 What Exactly Does This Result Mean?
9:04 Outro

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