Seek PCB thinner than 1.6mm

I've got some 8 mil (0.2mm) copper clad on ebay, but all you really need is two strips of aluminum foil, card stock, and some double sided tape. Or buy some copper foil tape at the hardware store.

When I was faced with the same issue I used aluminum foil and waxed paper to get a meter into the battery circuit of my Pentax digital camera. If you want something more permanent try a piece of one of those almost impossible to open plastic blister packs with copper strips super-glued on. Solder the wires to the copper strips before you glue them to the plastic or you'll have a sloppy mess. That should be thin enough for what you want.

In any old broken down piece of electronics.

You might try some Kapton wiring with copper on both sides.

Everyone sells 0.8mm which is the next standard size down. Most PCB suppliers will go down to 0.5mm as standard, and thinner if you ask them. The thinner stuff (down to 0.1mm or below) is actually pre-preg or core used in multi layer PCB's. It is actually surprisingly flexible and you can actually use it as "flex PCB" in designs that call for a curved board that doesn't move after installed.

Dave.

.8 mm is also common.

Bob

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I want to create a probe to put in between two AA or two AAA cells to determine the current flowing. The probe could be made up of a piece of double-sided circuit board with a wire coming from the contact area on each side. All I see in the catalogues is 1.6mm PCB. Where can I get a bit of thinner board?

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Aren't most circuit boards in TVs, printers and that sort of thing about 1.6mm thick?

I haven't seen flexible PCB with different contacts on both sides. (I sometimes see felxible PCB with the same contact on each side.)

I tried the flexible PCB in the link and tried to glue two pieces back to back so the contacts faced outwards but the adhesive started to spilt after a number of insertions.

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I figured a bit of thin circuit board might be stronger.

Sorry, I just don't like to use eBay! Farnell UK has a lot of similar prototypng board (if that's the right category) but it either 1.6mm or single sided.

Here is what I got:

There is bare FR4 media you can buy. Then, you can add foil or whatever as contact media, and construct your own without resorting to buying expensive clad media.

Try to find a local supplier for Kinsten PCB products. They do a 0.4mm double sided sheet 300 x 150 x 0.4mm for around AU$10

That's nice! But as I want just a fragment then I am limited to getting it from a parts supplier.

Following that up, the thinnest I came across was 0.8mm which isn't all that wonderfully thin:

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As an alternative I thought of Flat Flexible Cable but can't find double sided.

You can take bare stock of FR4 or G10 variety, which can be had down to like 0.015" inch (perhaps thinner).

It is very stiff, and you can place conductors across it and put Kapton tap over the conductor, leaving a hole in the "contact area". Do the same on the other side, and take your readings from the leads you attach.

You'll get better results as the strip you use will be heavier gauge than any PCB cladding could ever be.

I would fan out a simple piece of Teflon (PTFE) insulated, Silver Plated Copper (SPC) stranded wire. You fan out a strip length of a few mm, and place the Kapton tape with the hole in it over the fanned out area. Same on opposite side. Kapton over the "nose" of it lets you slip it right in.

Cut up a segment from an old UDMA hard drive cable. Bare the top side of one conductor, and the bottom side of a neighboring conductor. Jam it in there.