[chbot] Costs of custom PCBs just keeps dropping....

Mark Atherton markaren1 at xtra.co.nz
Tue Jul 31 21:58:22 BST 2018


Hi Quentin,

In defense of Seeedstudio, I have had about six designs manufactured by 
them and have never had a problems with pads lifting during rework.

What size pad has been troublesome ?

Regards,
Mark

On 1/08/2018 7:47 AM, Quentin McDonald wrote:
>
> Hi Micheal,
>
> Perennial questions - how long from order to delivery and what's the 
> quality like? I've generally stuck with OSHPark but I'm thinking about 
> diversifying to one of the Chinese manufacturers as I've got a project 
> which needs larger numbers of boards. My one experience with Seed was 
> that the board was basically OK as long as you didn't have to ever 
> unsolder anything (the pads seemed to lift very easily).
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Quentin
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:03 PM Michael Field <hamster at snap.net.nz 
> <mailto:hamster at snap.net.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Today I ordered my first PCB in a long while, and for a change
>     ordered from https://jlcpcb.com/ based on a recommendation from a
>     co-worker.
>
>     Ten 100mm x 100mm PCBs (actually 80 for my project because they
>     were panelized 4x2) for under USD$10, including standard post.
>
>     Yeap - about $0.12 each for a 19x45 board. Wow! How can peope feed
>     their family with those prices?
>
>     I was also the first board.i've done in KiCAD, which I feel is now
>     bit better than Eagle. Happy to show people the ropes if they have
>     a spare Sunday afternoon.
>
>     Mike
>
>     PS if anybody needs any I2S to line-level audio DACs with a 1x6
>     header, drop me a line.
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