Here is an image of my solenoid driver board. It is 99% autorouted but I did make the traces for the positive inputs for the solenoids much larger for the 10 amps peak they might see. The current is very brief so the traces are probably larger than they need to be. The traces for the solenoid inputs are 100 mils, the rest at 16 mils and I have the entire top and bottoms of the board as ground. There are five vias but I do not think I can avoid them. I also probably need to line the ICs in a way that is more pleasing to the eye and I have to add the silk screen layer to label everything.
I was getting to the point where I really needed to build on something. I have numerous pinball parts but have nothing to attach them to. I managed to find some pinball plans for a Williams Widebody pinball machine. All the measurements are in mm sadly even though all pinball cabinets are in inches. I converted and change it all to the nearest quarter inch. Well sort of. The guy who measured this was intending on using 45 deg cuts in the corners. My skill saw is too cheap for that so I changed the measurements for butted joints. The interior is set for a 23.5" wide playfield. The length of the cabinet is 51.5" in total. I used 3/4 inch plywood so the bottom would be 50" long for example. You can pretty much dimension the rest from there. I did get a little chipping of the plywood but I went out and bought a blade with more teeth for finer cuts. It's a 60 tooth saw blade and my skill saw doesn't really have enough power for it so I have
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