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I’d agree with the tip of that ground plane is close to the high voltage part. And there’s still space left on the right.
The ULN2003A claims to have the flyback diodes and they’re connected. So you don’t need another set.
I’m not an electronic expert myself. But I don’t get why the fuses are the way they are. Most of the times I see boards having one fuse and when it’s blown, the whole board is separated from electricity. You’re kind of splitting it up 3 ways.
And the 5A of the fuses doesn’t match with the 10A rating of the relais or the 400W you wrote for the connectors. But I get that you have maybe 6 motors moving simultaneously.
(And why do you have the N trace to the connectors split in the middle and a whole other trace going all the way around? Is that to balance things when there’s much current going over that single trace? Or to match the 2 fuse design?)
Thanks for explaining. Yeah, I’m sure it’s pretty much alright with your circuit breaker. I suppose your main concern for having the fuses is so that those relais can’t start a fire once the current is between 10A and 16A for too long. I was just thinking about failure modes. And having something fail, the fuse blow and then half the board still has 230V feels a bit strange. But I guess it’s alright. I’m not an expert anyways.
I saw those PCB mounted 5V power supplies coming up in ESP32-projects before. I always thought they were some cheap chinese stuff and you shouldn’t trust them. But if they have a proper fuse inside and do proper 5V… Maybe I need to change my mind and start digging deeper.
Idk about mixing 10A relais and 5A traces and connectors. Everytime I buy some shelly stuff, I just have a look at the print on the relais before I wire something up. That’d be wrong in case someone had made the traces smaller. But I guess you can just write 5A MAX on the pcb and everyone can see that, even if one day somebody else does some maintenance. In this case you obviously need a 5A fuse.