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Creepage distance Battery voltage #10

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JochenKr opened this issue Mar 2, 2022 · 4 comments
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Creepage distance Battery voltage #10

JochenKr opened this issue Mar 2, 2022 · 4 comments
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@JochenKr
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JochenKr commented Mar 2, 2022

The creepage distance for the battery voltage is only 0.3mm to GND.
To reduce the risk of arcing, it makes sense to increase the distance to at least 0.7mm in respect to IPC9592.

On the connector this requires a change of the pinning to achieve the increased distance.
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Very good point, thanks. I'll fix definitely fix that.

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Swapped the pins and increased the GND plane gap on top layer from 0.3 mm to 0.5 mm:

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You suggested 0.7 mm, which would make quite a few GND planes on the top layer disappear. I'm wondering if 0.7 mm is only required for dirty / moisty environment, as it is violated by the IC anyways:

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PDSG pin is pulled up to the battery voltage during normal operation and it's right next to a GND pin:

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probably it is more critical in dirty/moisty environments, but as far as I know the standard is always valid.
I think on the IC it is not that big problem. As the signals have high impedance, arcing will not have a big impact.
On the high power traces it is much more important as arcing then causes fire.

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The influence of the impedance makes sense.

I've swapped the pins as suggested and increased the gaps to 0.5 mm for now. Leaving this open so that future revisions can be further improved.

@martinjaeger martinjaeger added the enhancement New feature or request label Mar 15, 2022
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