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Building PCB in Europe is soooo expensive...
Posted by: Melkhior on 2024-04-11 07:23:36 A simple PDS adapter with 2 slots for the IIci, so just 8 lines in the BoM for SMT (two for resistors, four for capacitors, small switch & a single 1G3157 IC switch). JLCPCB breakdown for 5 boards: Merchandise Total $48.87 Shipping $20.22 Customs duties & taxes $13.82 Grand Total: $82.91 That's with HASL, ENIG adds around $20 so ~$25 after customs. And from a European manufacturer for 6 boards (cheaper than 5 by around 1€) which seems to require ENIG: Net Total €312.81 VAT 19 % €59.43 Total €372.24 I guess it'll get made in China... EDIT: forgot the $9 coupons that everybody get all the time at JLCPCB... $72.11, or €67.22 after the bank's exchange rate.
Posted by: max1zzz on 2024-04-11 07:40:12 Yep. I have looked many, many times as getting PCB's produced in Europe and it;s just uneconomical for hobbiest level stuff. One IIcx board would cost me about 2-3x the total cost of 5 of them shipped from JLC last time I looked. And that's assembly Even among Chinese manufacturers JLC tends to be cheap, I have looked at PCBWay a few times as I have not been that happy with the quality of the solder resist JLC have been using for the last few years but even they tend to be significantly more expensive.
Posted by: Melkhior on 2024-04-11 08:02:28 I have looked many, many times as getting PCB's produced in Europe and it;s just uneconomical for hobbiest level stuff Yes, and it's quite frustrating. This particular manufacturer in Germany (aisler.net) used to have a service where they shipped parts along the PCB, but not assembled; for through-hole, it was convenient to avoids shipping costs on €2 worth of components. I did my MAC/VGA adapter and the custom VGA PMod that I originally used fort my SBus-based framebuffer (which was later used as the basis for the three Mac *FPGA freambuffers). But they have discontinued that service :-( For the really simple stuff like the dual-slot PDS, I keep trying to see if it could work, but that's over 4.5x the cost per board...
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