PCB in small quantities

Sorry for the irrelevent message,

I clicked on the wrong newsgroup.

Pete

Cheers,

Pete

I get all of mine from PCB-pool. For a one off prototype, you're looking at £286 for a 300mm by 600mm board, double sided, 1.6mm thick, plus VAT & delivery.

There's no setup fee.

Last time I looked they were £15.93 per dm2, and your board is 18dm2.

Delivery time will be 10 working days.

If you can find someone who'd do a PTH for £100 for an 18dm board (with a quick lead time and no setup), I'd like to know!

HTH

Pete.

There's a company that advertise on eBay continually for a fixed price small PCB run - and the price is around 100 quid. I don't know how they get away with this advert in an auction, but they do. It's in either components or test equipment, but a search on PCB should find it.

Pete Smith mumbled:

Even twenty years ago when I last had to do things like this you'd have had trouble getting it that cheap.

Thanks, that's the one I was thinking of and couldn't remember. I've been given eurocircuits.com to try and they look very good value and even mill the PCB to any shape as standard.

Pete

I actually enjoy making my own, although I've not attempted double sided and definitely not surface mount. ;-)

I have some etching and developing equipment in my workshop which I use when there's a real hurry. But for doing double sided yourself, you really need one of those expensive double sided exposure units which cost about £500.

I quite enjoy making them myself when I can too, it can be quite therapeutic.

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (DesignElect) mumbled:

How do you PTH?

That's a tricky one! When I've had to, do DIY PTH, it's had to be a case of soldering tinned copper wire through the board to make a via. That's as good as I can do.

Pete