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Pronunciation of "via(s)"

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Pack34:

--- Quote from: tooki on October 15, 2020, 06:16:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: SpecialK on October 15, 2020, 02:22:17 pm ---Sometimes pronounced "plated through-hole"

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"Plated through-hole" and "via" are not synonyms. PTHs are plated holes through which you insert a component lead; vias are plated holes through which component leads are not placed.

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Technically, it is a hole that goes through a board, that's plated.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: Pack34 on October 20, 2020, 03:42:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on October 15, 2020, 06:16:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: SpecialK on October 15, 2020, 02:22:17 pm ---Sometimes pronounced "plated through-hole"

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"Plated through-hole" and "via" are not synonyms. PTHs are plated holes through which you insert a component lead; vias are plated holes through which component leads are not placed.

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Technically, it is a hole that goes through a board, that's plated.

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But a via doesn't always go through the board. It can be buried or blind, in which case it just joins two or more layers.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Karel on October 15, 2020, 01:12:39 pm ---What is the correct pronunciation of "via's" when we talk about pcb's?
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No such thing as "correct".
I use both vee-a and vie-a even within the same video.

tooki:

--- Quote from: Pack34 on October 20, 2020, 03:42:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on October 15, 2020, 06:16:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: SpecialK on October 15, 2020, 02:22:17 pm ---Sometimes pronounced "plated through-hole"

--- End quote ---
"Plated through-hole" and "via" are not synonyms. PTHs are plated holes through which you insert a component lead; vias are plated holes through which component leads are not placed.

--- End quote ---

Technically, it is a hole that goes through a board, that's plated.

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So? Dissecting terms literally doesn’t help define their real-world meanings. I mean, if you dissect RAM and ROM — random-access memory and read-only memory — you don’t actually get the true meaning of either, because the terms were carried over from older technologies whose competing technologies had different characteristics. Nowadays, a ROM is likely to be rewritable (like Flash or other EEPROM), but above all, all modern storage and memory technologies except for tape are random access, so random access isn’t actually the defining characteristic of RAM any more. But the name stuck, so we use “RAM” when we mean volatile memory and “ROM” when we mean non-volatile memory.

Point is, the word “via” means the holes, covered or not, used for connecting one layer to another, without putting component leads in. Whereas “plated through-hole” is a subtype of a “through-hole”, which is a  hole for a component lead.

And yes, you’ll find examples of people using the terminology wrong. Doesn’t change the fact that they’re wrong.

newbrain:

--- Quote from: eti on October 20, 2020, 09:28:10 pm ---Maybe this thread has served its "purpose" (it is going nowhere, and never was)

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Yup, I can agree.
As for the blocking, I must apologize, it was involuntary.
Now, it definitely isn't.

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