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PCB Trace Current Carrying Capacity

IPC-2152, Standard for Determining Current Carrying Capacity in Printed Board Design, is quite old. Jack Olson has updated the information and provides comprehensive charts for most pcb configurations at

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The original IPC-2152 is available at

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You may have to hold your mouse on the IPC logo for the download to appear. The price for non-members is $160.

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Steve Wilson
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Thanks, looks interesting. Usually I just go with the Saturn PCB Design Toolkit program.

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Piglet

This is based on them,

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(Mind it has an adblock nag screen, you may want to make a local copy of the page+script and strip out the crap.)

Tim

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Tim Williams

Thanks. It looks like the Saturn program would be good for a quick sanity check, but it doesn't seem well-suited to modern multilayer pcbs. The Olson appears much better suited for todays multilayers.

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Steve Wilson

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