Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

[jason duhamell <ps2chiper@xxxxxxxxx>]

   I can only recommend the company that I use to make my pcb's.
   [1]fzpcb@xxxxxxx from huizhou in china that is very easy to work with
   and very professional at a good price. usually less then 2 dollars a
   board for samples.

   On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Dave N6NZ <[2]n6nz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

     If this is your first board, I'd go with a shop that is reasonably
     fast and known for quality work.
     Fast because:
     * this is your first board, and you are excited to have it.
     * this is your first board, and now is the time to "make mistakes
     quickly".
     Quality work because:
     * this is your first board, and you don't need to chase any red
     herrings.
     On this side of the pond, I'd go for APCircuits or PCBExpress (not
     to be confused with express PCB).  Either will give you a very high
     quality board, quickly.  Either is as easy to work with as ordering
     a book from Amazon.  Either will appear costly compared to slower
     solutions of less predictable quality.  IMHO, today is your day to
     spend a few more dollars on a PCB and eat a cheap lunch. :)
     My friends have used Olimex with happy results, although you will
     wait.
     I used to be high on SparkFun's BatchPCB, but soured on it after
     experiencing long waits and getting back junk.  Well, not total
     junk.  I ordered multiple units of several different designs, and
     got back nearly 2X of each that I ordered.  OK, at first I'm
     thinking they felt generous when they were panelizing, nice customer
     service.  Turns out, many were bad boards.  I think somebody *knew*
     they had just created a batch of dodgy boards, and ran another batch
     of panels and sent the whole output to their customers to sort it
     out.  I consider 60% yield, expecting the customer to weed out the
     pigs, as unacceptable quality.  The BatchPCB vendor is Gold Phoenix,
     a Chinese vendor.
     If you are outside North America, then APCircuits or PCBExpress may
     not be cost effective options.
     -dave

   On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:36 AM, jason duhamell wrote:
   >   Are you willing to work with chinese?
   >

   >   On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Jim <[1][3]jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
   >
   >     Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new,
   very
   >     inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype.
   Last
   >     time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar.  I may
   >     need a bit of handholding as I go along.
   >     Thanks,
   >     Jim.
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