23 Jan
2012
23 Jan
'12
3:47 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 22 Jan 2012 at 19:03, David Griffith wrote:
That sort of thing is precisely why I had the boards pre-stuffed with the
surface-mounts. The boards were fabbed and stuffed a few miles from
Portland Oregon by Sunstone Circuits and Screaming Circuits. I'd gladly
use their services again.
Soo.... anyone want P112 kits? Two are sold. Five more are left.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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As someone else mentioned, those are made by
Schmartboard. I asked on
a homebrewed PCB mailing list how or if trenches like that could be
made on a homebrewed or professionally-made board. The answers ranged
from "maybe" to "yes, but very expensive" to "no".
I could see making a very thick solder mask so that a chip would
naturally settle onto the traces. Schmart says they can do custom
PCB work, but they won't say how much extra their service costs over
a standard PCB.
My gut feeling is that it will loads cheaper to job this out with a
PCB order just to stuff the SMT items and leave the rest for the
customer to handle. I don't like it, but then we don't ask hobbyists
to make their own PCBs either.
More business for the Chinese, I imagine. So I can understand the
P112 kit approach.