funnily enough it never happened to me, I have never found a fault on my boards, and hence don't concern myself too much with the tests on basic double sided.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2002 9:54 AM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT - Complex boards and time to Layout? > > > it has happened to me twice > 2 different shops > they charged for test setup, testing, but there were short > all over some > of them and they were only double sided > > Dennis Saputelli > > Jon Elson wrote: > > > > Bagotronix Tech Support wrote: > > > > > With a board that complex, your board vendor had better > actually be doing > > > electrical test, instead of just charging for it and not > doing it... > > > > What? This is endemic in the industry? I've had to can > several vendors > > for pulling this stunt. But, when they get caught by me, > with my (in > > comparison) quite modest boards, there's no doubt what is > going on, because > > the boards come back with 50% failure rate. IE. 50% of the > boards have at > > least > > one internal short or open. I usually get the test report > from Advanced > > Circuits, > > so I know what their yield is on multilayer boards. And, > it is somewhere > > between > > 50 and 75% on most runs. The 2-sided usually come back at > 90% or better > > passing. > > > > So, it is real hard for me to believe that many fabricators > pull these > > stunts of > > pretending to do electrical test as a routine matter. I > think they'd get > > caught > > WAY too often. > > > > Jon > > -- > ______________________________________________________________ > _____________ > www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Integrated Controls, Inc. > tel: 415-647-0480 2851 21st Street > fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
