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Draft: Redraw RJ non-magnetic symbols

John Beard requested to merge johnbeard/kicad-symbols:redraw_rj into master

After @cnieves1 did the nice RJ45s with the magnetics, it seems a good idea pre-8 to sync up the non-magnetic symbols. This is also connected to !3206 (merged),

This is a a draft to get some ideas, I'll expand to do all the other nPnC and RJs in the same way if we can get a nice pattern going.

Main problems:

  • Pins 1-8 on left (like magnetics parts) or right (as current)
  • Should we indicate tab-up or tab-down?
  • Should LEDs go on the same side as the 1-8 pins or the other side?
  • LEDs cathode up or down (current magnetics are cathode up)
  • LED names as pin numbers (e.g. 9, 10, 11, 12), or descriptive (L1A, L1K, etc). I think pin numbers and probably atomic parts as the combinations of LED counts, colours, bi-colours, etc will get too hard to describe usefully.

For example:

1-8 on left, LEDs on right, cathodes up:

2023-10-09_222939_827x671_screenshot

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