11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
8:02 a.m.
On Mar 11, 2010, at 12:56 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It's a LOT cheaper now than it was then, and the price drops
substantially when you order a big pile of boards. For my last run
of boards, qty. 1 pricing was about $35/ea, qty. 25 was about $12.50/
ea, and qty. 100 was less than six bucks.
And no (Guy!) I'm not talking about junk box parts, but I don't
just up and order everything from DigiKey either. I paid about ten
dollars for over 5000 0.1uF 0805 bypass caps a year ago by buying
partial reels. Smart shopping gets low-volume production run
quantities of parts very affordably, and they're pretty much always
available.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
>> $ 200
is definitely even close to the stratosphere.
>> Entertain yourself and get a quote for just the PCB.
>> (4Layer, gold fingers, 14 routing points, non standard thickness,
>> prototype amount 10, smt)
>> And while you're at it, put the qbus drivers on it and a handle.
>>
>> Please tell me what you got so far.
It's been a few years since I priced small runs of through-hole-heavy
Qbus boards, but our Qbus COMBOARD was 4 layer, had the usual amount
of gold fingers, and *bare* cost us $500 *each* in short runs. We put
our own handles on them. I still have the foot-powered rivet press
and (somewhere) bags of suitable rivets.
PCB manufacture is cheaper than it was when we started doing 4 and 6
layer boards, but that sort of price is why we stopped making certain
models of boards when the PCB stack ran out - too expensive to make a
short run and not enough customer demand for a large run.