Thanks, so the thermal releif is so that all can get up to temp in the alloted time?....in other words, thermal reliefs are always needed?
But come to think ot it...ive done SMD LED boards with no thermal reliefs and the PCB assembler said it was fine, and soldered the boards up nicely for us....presumbaly they just had to do a few dummy runs to get the temperature and time profiles right?....so in other words....we do NOT actually need thermal reliefs...but must just tell the PCB assembler that we dont have them?
Then they can give extra "deep-fry" to the boards in the solder bath so that the non thermal relived inductor can get soldered?