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Dean T connector (RC Li-Po battery)

Tomas Mudrunka requested to merge harvie/kicad-footprints:master into master

Hello, i've added footprint for Dean T connector:

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It is very popular in RC models for li-po battery connections as it can carry relatively high currents for its price. It is primarily soldered to wires, but the design of the connector makes it quite attractive for use on PCB as well.

Unfortunately there are no GOOD datasheets available. Only datasheet with drawings i've found is way off with the measurements and they even didn't bothered to acknowledge the fact that male and female footprint is different and just copypasted the drawing for both. But i've succesfully used the provided footprint for stacking two boards on top of each other. (if you manage to stack male crtyrds on top of female crtyrds on another board, it will match properly). So i am positive that the provided dimensions are correct (unlike the chinese datasheet you might find on google).

I am strugling with geting ./check_footprint.py output clean. I still keep geting violation of F7.1 and F9.3. But i've manualy checked KLC and i am almost sure that everything is up to spec.

Also the 3D model is called Dean_T_Male while footprint is called Dean_T_Male_Vertical. Because there might be horizontal footprint in the future using the same 3D model. (there are people soldering these horizontaly to the notch at the edge of the board, but i currently don't have such footprint). But it would make sense to reuse the 3D model in such case.

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Edited by Tomas Mudrunka

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