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Slow etching, Sodium Persulfate?

2004-11-01 by P.O.

Does anyone use sodium persulfate as etchant?
I'm makeing my first pcb using toner transfer from kodak-paper. But the 
etchant doesn't work very well.
I use about 0,8 dl etchant for 4 dl of water@ca 50° in a plastic bowl 
that and moved stirred it pretty much the first hour... The pcb is 
about 4x3 cm big.
Now it has been in the etchant all night and only about 1/8 of the 
board has etched.
Maybe the kodak-paper left something on the surface? I did iron it 
about 60 seconds on both sides. To long?

/P.O.

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