Maestro FSH-1A reversed board

[nephsuperman]

I am making the Maestro FSH-1A from the www.ustomp.com board and I accidentally fabricated my board with the positive image.  I was just going to proceed as planned thinking that it should be ok as long as i am careful.  Is there anything I should worry about or something I missed out there that would make this a stupid move?

[Dan N]

You'll have to put the IC's on the foil side of the board or go dead bug (bend the IC legs up so you can plug them in upside down.

The last time I etched mirror, I soldered sockets to the foil. It helps if you find a way to keep the socket up off the board a little so you can get the solder to flow to the side of the legs. It's a good test of your soldering skills.

Good luck!

[nephsuperman]

i think you had a different solution, i was just going to solder like normal,   I think its just going to be confusing, the schematic is still the same.

im not going to risk it.  knowing my luck, ill get started and get something mixed up.  I like to have everything laid out ahead of time and this just seems like it would mess everything up for me.  im going to fab a new pcb.  thanks for the infomation

[Skreddy]

Just like Dan said:

You can solder everything to the foil side of the board or else you can bend the leads of your IC chips backwards so it installs like upside down and solder everything on the normal side of the board.  Any transistors will have to be reversed as well--which just means you take the middle lug and bend it the opposite direction it usually goes.  All the terminals of all the semiconductors will go into the same holes they would normally go into; they'll just be sitting on the other side of the board from whey they'd normally go, so they have to be bent to fit as needed (generally mirrored from the normal layout).

I'd use sockets for the ics and go ahead a build it.  Then you'll know if you want to change anything before you make another one the right way.