RK11-C indicator panel inlays?

Todd Goodman tsg at bonedaddy.net
Tue Dec 7 05:45:25 CST 2021


Board cost depends on quantity, the more you have made, the lower the 
per board cost.

PCBCart.com charges a "tooling" charge for a new design.  They do look 
over the designs carefully and reorders don't incur that charge.

To get an idea, I had a run of Joerg Hoppe's DEC Flip-Chip Extender Hex 
+5 boards made (http://retrocmp.com/tools/dec-flip-chip-extenders)

I had 20 made.  My total (board cost, share of tooling, share of 
shipping and share of customs at that time) per board cost is $42.60 
(I'm selling them for $42 as I didn't get the customs charge until later).

On 12/6/2021 7:21 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
> I haven't priced anything out yet.  My current project will have 
> reasonably large sized board but will be using DIN 41612 style 
> connectors (so I don't need edge fingers).  I haven't gone to 
> different board vendors yet to see what pricing will be yet (still 
> settling on board size and number of layers...right now it looks like 
> it'll be 4 layers).
>
> On 12/6/21 3:50 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
>> For other boards without gold fingers where would you recommend and 
>> how expensive for omnibus size boards?
>>
>> On 12/6/2021 5:07 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/6/21 2:45 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I may8 ask a question.  I have never had boards made before. How 
>>>> do I find a good board house that is reasonable and how do I 
>>>> specify the board especially for the PDP-8 Omnibus which should 
>>>> have gold fingers on the edge connectors?
>>>>
>>> Anything the size of an Omnibus board with gold fingers is *not* 
>>> going to be "reasonable" especially if you want "hard gold" (which 
>>> IMHO is the only way to go if you want reasonable life of the boards 
>>> and sockets).
>>>
>>> I've used Advanced Circuits for all my boards that needed gold 
>>> fingers (they are *not* cheap...you've been warned).  When you 
>>> submit your Gerber files, you also specify if you have edge fingers 
>>> and how you want them plated.  I have been 100% satisfied with the 
>>> boards that I've received from them.
>>>
>>> TTFN - Guy
>>>
>>>
>>


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