JLCPCB will to 5 boards for $2. They will also populate the board on one side with common parts for nearly free. For just the price of the parts which can be less than one cent each.
In fact, it is worth doing a small re-design of the PCB if needed so you can take advantage of JLCPCB soldering the parts down for you. I'd argue that it would be a silly waste of time for anyone to hand solder a common passive part to a PCB today. Not when they do it cheaper than you can buy the parts. Some things they will not do are (1) any through-hole part and (2) parts not in their inventory. Those you would do yourself after delivery of the PCBs. But they have a decent inventory of common parts https://jlcpcb.com/ That said, shipping will cost more than the PCBs but they do combine shipping so it is most cost-effective to send many designs at the same time. When custom made PCBs cost $0.40 each you can think of uses for them like (1) make your own prototype boards, (2) Make a wire routing board, with just connectors and traces to reduce "rat's nest". (3) make structural PCB for things like mounting limit switches along with an LED and the pull-up resistor which they will solder for you. (4) I've made custom terminal blocks, a PCB with just screw terminals and nothing else. For 40 cents, why not? It is easy to think of way-simply PCBs just to piggy-pack the shipping cost. On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 9:14 AM Alan Condit <condit.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am thinking about having a 2” x 4” PCB fabricated. I have used OSHPark in > the past but I seem to recall someone saying that there were cheaper > options available. I searched back through the emc-users threads but > couldn't find anything. Can anyone tell me what fabrication house they > would use? > > Thanks, > Alan > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
