PCB Fab houses

January 7th, 2010

I’ve purchased PCBs form these companies:

Very good qualilty. I orderer a batch of 25 and got 26 :-) Was delivered by FEDEX. I orderer Monday morning and got it on Tuesday next week!

 

Pooling service run by SparkFun. 10$ tooling fee + 2.5$/in² (0.39$/cm²). They’ve got a DRC bot that automatically checks uploaded Gerber files for errors. The boards are manufactures by Gold Phoenix. It’s a nice idea, but for me it just takes too long. Waiting more than 4 weeks for a prototype just doesn’t cut it.

 

pending… still pending… it arrived. Very good quality, even affordable gold plating, but you have to wait for it. My first order took 5 weeks. Communication is a bit strange, you only get an order confirmation and that’s it. If you want more information, you need to ask.

 

  • SeeedStudio: Propaganda service (now called FUSION) for open source designs
Good quality for small money.

 

Experience with drill files:

You better make sure the drill file complies with these settings. Otherwise you’ll have some emails going back and forth to fix the issue.

  • Drill Units: inches
  • Zeros Format: supress leading zeros
  • Precision: 2.4
  • Drill Origine: Absolute
  • Drill Sheet: None
  • Mirror Y Axis: OFF
  • Minimal Header: ON
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