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On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Jason White wrote:
> That might be convenient, but I think it could be a bit of a "trap" so
> to speak. If you have large currents flowing from the re-flooded
> "hole" in the copper pour, you may not realize that their is an
> electrically poor connection (a single via) to the actual plane.

The same problem exists - but is probably worse - when part of the copper
pour is connected to the rest only through a very narrow gap, such as
between two DIP pads.  Unless PCB is going to do a proper finite-element
analysis to determine the resistance in such cases, I think it's okay to
let a single via be treated as a good enough connection to reconnect the
pour, and force the user to think it, as they are already forced to do.

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Matthew Skala
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