Heat Bed to Warm Multilayer PCB

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Can I use an internal layer as a heat bed if I want to warm my multilayer pcb?

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Turchi Leonardo

Is it proper to use the internal layer as a heat bed? If not, any disadvantage?

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2016/7/30 17:38:14

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zakbc

You can not take away any copper that you don't need for heating, that'll help a lot, and if you can connect those to a safe ground trace or plane: First of all that will conduct the heat away to that plane, which helps, but it also avoids resonances and such when you start PWM-ing the heater.

2016/11/2 12:38:18

Holger

You can shield electrostatically with a ground plane, but the magnetic field will go right through everything, so if you have sensitive circuits you might need to filter the PWM to something more like DC.

2016/10/24 2:41:32

Simone Briatore

I'd use a cheap SMT thermistor for the sensor assuming you only want to control at one temperature. Just stick it in and it will work.

2016/8/14 5:14:49

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