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  • A single-sided or 1-layer board cannot have vias. As a professional designer you should know this. I was not talking about a board with components only on one side. I mean a board with only one copper layer.

    I never claimed that nearly all LCD monitors have 0 vias. I said their power supplies very often do not.

    Here you go: Philips 55PUS6704/12 power supply board. Single sided board, 1 copper layer. No vias. Almost all of them are like this:

    What has aerospace got to do with it? Nothing. Your claim seemed to be that anything other than high speed digital designs utilising BGA ICs, 4+ layer boards and a million vias don’t count as “actually designing electronics”. You appear to be trying to imply now that only electronics designed for aerospace use counts as “real electronics design”.

    It sound like you are an elitist asshole, with a far too big ego, who probably also thinks that “only real programmers use assembly/binary/a magnetic needle and a steady hand/whatever”





  • Um, no. That’s just plain incorrect. 🙄

    Plenty of useful circuits that are beyond “chuck together a couple of modules” or a “proof of concept” can be implemented on single-sided boards. Look in any hobbyist electronics magazine and you’ll find many of the project designs still use single-sided boards. Many products on the market use single-sided PCBs. My Hakko soldering iron’s control board is single sided. Every PCB in my Sony amplifier is single-sided. The SMPS in almost every LCD monitor, TV and more, exists on a single-sided board.

    I would like to see you try to tell the Sony engineers who designed my amplifier that they weren’t “actually designing electronics”, or to the Hakko engineers who designed my soldering iron.

    Tell the engineers at Delta that every single switch-mode power supply they ever designed on a single-sided board doesn’t count as “actually designing electronics”.