11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
4:16 a.m.
On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Jim Brain wrote:
$ 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.
Stratosphere ?
;-) Do you really need gold fingers? My PCB place does gold immersion
for a flat $30.00 per board run. No, it's not as thick as gold
fingers, but does the board really need the full plating thickness?
Nope. I forgot to mention that. I have several commercially-
produced Qbus and Unibus boards that lack gold plating on the fingers.
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Sorry, but the
new one want be cheaper than that. That's why I
don't call them expensive.
A new one can easily be cheaper than that, assuming you don't
intend to recoup all of your development expenses in the first
two or three sales. I expect quite a few of these cards would
sell. There's no reason to price it up in the stratosphere. SMT is not an issue either, unless you want the board
house to
assemble. If so, it's $125 for a stencil.
Indeed, SMT will be *cheaper* due to the reduced number of holes
to be drilled. And much faster to assemble.
-Dave