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
The original IPC-2152 is available at
You may have to hold your mouse on the IPC logo for the download to appear. The price for non-members is $160.
Thanks, looks interesting. Usually I just go with the Saturn PCB Design Toolkit program.
piglet
This is based on them,
Tim
-- Seven Transistor Labs, LLC Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design Website:
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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