Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-12 Thread Jeff Adolphs
: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ? Jon Elson said: We used to use Imagineering, aka www.pcbnet.com, as they were cheaper than Advanced Circuits a few years ago. Beware, though, that they charge for electrical test but may not actually do the test. We had a 6-layer board that they did for us

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-11 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
Rene said: It is not only the price that matters. I'd rather have one that thinks a bit for itself. I once had an urgent pcb and sent the data to a boardhouse before going to vacation, intending to proceed when I'm back. There were a few unplated holes and even they knew it was in a hurry they

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-11 Thread Robison Michael R CNIN
Jon Elson said: We used to use Imagineering, aka www.pcbnet.com, as they were cheaper than Advanced Circuits a few years ago. Beware, though, that they charge for electrical test but may not actually do the test. We had a 6-layer board that they did for us, it had the ET stamp on it, but a

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-11 Thread mariusrf
- Original Message - From: Robison Michael R CNIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ? Jon Elson said: We used to use Imagineering, aka www.pcbnet.com, as they were cheaper than

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-11 Thread Jon Elson
mariusrf wrote: I've had very good results with www.pcbexpress.com for small quantities or protos . They don't charge tooling , also no electrical test for less than 20pcs protos . Well, when we made a manufacturing run of 10 6-layer boards with about 1000 components/board, we asked for,

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-11 Thread Dwight Harm
One other thing about Sierra Proto Express (link below), they have some fairly sophisticated software checking the Gerber. On one design we sent them they caught that 2 track segments, while touching, only BARELY overlapped -- the narrowest point of overlap (of the rounded track ends) was much

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-10 Thread Frank Gilley
Miker, I like these guys: http://www.prototron.com They usually get quotes back to me in a couple of hours, and I don't even use the online feature. Their quality is absolutely top-notch, but their pricing can be variable and sometimes out-of-line on simple stuff. They are quick to sharpen

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-10 Thread Dwight
We've had good results from Sierra Proto Express (www.protoexpress.com, which jumps to something else) for small quantities (10 boards), 4-layer stuff. Looks like they'll quote online up to 6-layer, 5/5 spacing. Once I submitted a quote request for a larger quantity, I think they responded in

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-10 Thread Joe Sapienza
/ - Original Message - From: Dwight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ? We've had good results from Sierra Proto Express (www.protoexpress.com, which jumps to something else

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-10 Thread Rene Tschaggelar
No, I cannot. I had to drop one supplier because they'd have my order laying around for a few days before processing it. On the other hand, the one processing the files there would call me in case he didn't understand something. The new supplier appears to have a dummy there. I recently forgot

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-10 Thread Jon Elson
Robison Michael R CNIN wrote: Hello, Purchasing is complaining about us buying so many boards without getting other quotes. I've done business with a couple other shops, but only for specialty work, like controlled impedance or an extreme dimension. I don't want to get quotes from these

Re: [PEDA] Board Shops with Online Quotes ?

2002-09-10 Thread Drew
Hello, I have not checked if any of the board shops below have online quotes. A subscriber of the SI-LIST put these together and I thought the contacts might be useful. Personally, I have had only positive experience with MEI, TTM, and Teradyne. By this I mean that I have no experience with