Date:         Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:41:56 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Looking for a PCB
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At 07:49 PM 4/30/2009, BenT Syncro wrote:
>Sounds like Gilles is looking for Printed Circuit Board (aka the blue foil
>in the instrument cluster).

Well...technically that one's not printed (though they are still
commonly called FPC or flexible PCB)...and calling it a foil is a
usage I've only encountered on this list.  Properly the entire thing
is a flexible circuit or flex PC or what-have-you.  The foil is the
copper material laminated inside that makes up the actual circuit --
a raw material if you will.

Coming from an electronics rather than a strictly Vanagon background,
my reaction was the same as Mike's -- "great...which one?" -- though
thinking more slowly, I suppose there's only one in a Vanagon that
has its own part number.  The rest are all enclosed in something else
that has a P/N.

Cheers,

  --
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"