John Meacham wrote: > > It will practically NEVER be cheaper to go get the boards on your own, > remember the cost of getting boards or chips made is > BIGNUMER + quantity*smallnumber. the designer can have them made in bulk
Yep, PCB manufacturers have starting costs of about 1200-1500 euros because they have to make the masks. After that it doesn't matter much if you buy 1 or 10 or even 100 boards. Depending on size of the board as they have to produce one or more about 50cm x 100cm boards with N of your boards. - Jussi Laako -- PGP key fingerprint: 161D 6FED 6A92 39E2 EB5B 39DD A4DE 63EB C216 1E4B Available at PGP keyservers
