I have used OSHPark (https://www.oshpark.com) with great results. They require at least 3 boards to be requested, but have no tooling fees. They also tend to get the boards back in to your hands very quickly, and the quality of the finished product is excellent.
I admit that I am also a fan of their PCB coloring (purple) as it looks really good with gold traces. - Alex On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Don Caprio <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using a manufacturer here in the USA (IL). > They have waived setup fee for me a couple times and > work hard at being competitive. > > 75 boards with gold fingers, 10 days @ about $12 a board. > Check them out. They are good folks. > > http://www.pcbnet.com > > > > On 08/22/14 11:00 AM, John Monahan wrote: > >> They seem to classify less than 500 or greater. It does not seem to >> make a >> big difference in price as far as I can tell (at least with PCBCart). >> The >> number 1 factor, is the number of boards. There is a "setup fee" fee of >> $70-$80 for each new board. After that it's a board cost. Just place the >> (large) order for the 80386 + RAM boards, total ~100 boards, works out to >> be ~$13/board. >> >> John >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Don Caprio >> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 9:50 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:4992] PCB Via Counts >> >> >> Are there any guidelines for acceptable number of via's on an S-100 PCB? >> How >> do quantity factor into manufacturing? >> I'm guessing fewer number means less cost and possibly shorter overall >> trace >> lengths. >> >> Autorouter starts to slow down and eliminate less and less. >> Doesn't seem like it's worth it to continue to run autorouter to reduce >> via >> with results like 1 or 2 a day. >> >> -- >> Don Caprio >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "N8VEM-S100" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> > -- > Don Caprio > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "N8VEM-S100" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
