>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:13:25 -0800 >From: Gamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Has anyone built a custom splitter card? > >>Not AFAIK, but that oughta be one of the easier projects. > >An easy electrical design, but not a make-it-at-home pc board design, >'cause there's 360 connector pins to interconnect. That's gonna take at >least 4 layers. which means plated thru holes. >Of course one could always hand wire it.....ouch. Sierra Proto-Express, https://www.2justforyou.com/NASApp/sierraproject/jsp/tabs_quote_promotion_.jsp , will do two proto-type four layer boards for about $135 total by the time they're shipped. The buyer must supply Gerber files for the board design. On the one hand, this is very expensive for a pair of splitter cards. On the other hand, it's a marvelous price for low quantity four layer boards. Most places want about $500 just for the tooling no matter how many four layer boards you order. I would happily pay $68 per board to avoid hand wiring it. :-) If enough SE/30 folks were interested that cost could be brought down considerable by ordering 100 of them, but there probably isn't a market for 100 of them in any reasonable amount of time. Plus, one would still want to do a proto-type order to test that the design works, which ups the costs. Jeff Walther -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
