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100 um is 4mil, which is the resolution one can get from the cheapest PCB offerings. (e.g. for single digit $ from JLCPCB).


> 100 um is 4mil

Just checking, "4mil"? When I see (or hear) "mil" I assume millimeters, which clearly isn't right here, but I don't know if this is autocorrupt or if this is shorthand for something else I've never seen called this before, say "1e-4 meters"?


USAmericans will do anything to avoid using the metric system. To them, "mil" means "milli-inch".


A mil in manufacturing is 0.001 inches(in this case 100um =3.937mil).


mil is an unfortunate shorthand for one-thousandth of an inch widely used in the electronics industry.


mil in this context is 1/1000 inch




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