Can somebody explain me what "stitch around the edge of the board" means, i guess my english is not good enough to understand that. Regards. Doug McKean schrieb: > > Hi Mary, > > > Are you saying that the 20-H rule only works when the board > > is bolted to a chassis? > > Well, yes. If the board is to be say an interface board plugged > into a motherboard where it's standing in free space, then you > must stitch around the edge of the board to attain the same > sort of effect. > > The whole trick, IMO, of the 20H rule is termination of the > 2D interplanar transmission line. Simply cutting back the > power planes would tend to have a dispersal effect, not > sure about that. > -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Michael Schmitt Baumer Ident GmbH Entwicklung / Development Department Hertzstr. 10 D-69469 Weinheim Deutschland / Germany Tel. +49 (0) 6201 9957 - 30 Fax. +49 (0) 6201 9957 - 99 E-Mail : mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.baumerident.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu