Help! DIY 4 amp L297/6203 driver

[Ross77]

I wont pretend to understand that, but it looks impressive, cheers

Any tips for laying out pcbs in Eagle or is it practice makes perfect? this could take a while.....

[graffian]

er the ones that always hits me, repeatedly, I am not learning. Everything looks much smaller when it's actually on a pcb, smaller than the screen that is. So those neat narrow little traces and tiny pads are even smaller than you thought. oh and make the holes in the pads very small as large ones make soldering not as neat and the drill won't center aswell. Well those are things I need to remember, but don't till I am looking at the laser print.

I seem to remember Mariss from Gecko offering to sell cplds programmed pretty much as in the geckodrives, for something like $5 a time?
It was mentioned in the looooong thread about the Alegro A3986 chip that everyone decided didn't work properly, this is on CNC zone. That must be worth a look.