On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Hrvoje Lasic lasich@gmail.com wrote:
speaking new PCB, I found done Chinese company for pcb samples. price looks very ok to me. what do you think:
that is extraordinarily cheap, very good. i also checked the cost that they'd be able to do EOMA68 boards at, and it's 60% of anything else i've previously been quoted: $361 instead of $600 for qty 5, and that's a 1.2mm PCB. a 1.6mm 110x90 2-layer PCB with 6-6 mill track/clearance and 0.25mm min drill size was $38 for qty 5 which is about 30% of what eurocircuits quote.
bear in mind that you would still have to pay tax, duty, tax-on-tax, tax-on-duty and tax-on-tax-on-duty... oh, and shipping. and tax-on-shipping. and tax-on-duty-on-tax-on-shipping. all of which could well end up adding almost 80%+ to the cost.
time-wise they look pretty fast, eurocircuits do a typical 7-day turnaround (these guys are 3), shipping from eurocircuits is often 2-3 days (and is only once a week for the 7-day production), so actually even though shipping would be with DHL international from china, you might actually end up getting it faster.
weird, huh? :)
l.