Hey guys, I have an AC source to give to my PCB board, so I am using 2 single input screw terminals, one for Live and another for neutral wire, so it is a one input screw terminal, but it has 2 pins to solder on the board, so in PCB design while tracing I will create a copper zone around them and connect my trace to the zone, but to get there how will I connect them in schematic window.
Why would the type of connector be important in the schematic?
Eg, just use “Conn_01x01” from the “Connector_Generic” library.
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The simplest and most common option is to make sure both pads in the footprint have the same pin number. Then you can use a schematic symbol with a single pin (also the same number of course) and as a result KiCad knows you have to connect the track to both the pads on the PCB. From the symbol from snapeda I assume the footprint pads now have the pin numbers “1_1” and “1_2”. If you change both to simply “1”, then you can use any regular single pin connector symbol in KiCad.
An alternative is to use a schematic symbol with two pins, and then give them the same pin numbers as what the footprint already has.
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