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Step 14Find a PCB manufacturer
This company OurPCB is in China and stood out from some of the others in that they freely advertised their price for small quantities. Shipping is FedEx and to the US they quote $22. The $40 above for a 10 sq inch board is for all the 3 boards, not per individual board. At a quantity of 100 the price per board is $1.80 each. They can give a firm quote once they get the zipped files.
These boards arrived in 9 working days. There were a few problems initially with me sending the wrong files (which is mainly why I wrote this Instructable!) and they were very patient and polite from their end. There were also some email problems in that emails coming back were totally blank. I was able to read the source text and at least work out who they were from but I nearly did delete the mail as junk mail. Finally I ended up communicating by Skype text. They all write very good English which is a bit embarrassing as my Mandarin is non existent. My kids are learning Mandarin at school though.
Payment was via Paypal which remains safer than using a credit card (for both parties) and far cheaper than an interbank transfer.
I hope this Instructable is useful. I have built many hundreds of prototype boards over the last twenty years but I think from now on I will be getting boards made professionally.
These boards arrived in 9 working days. There were a few problems initially with me sending the wrong files (which is mainly why I wrote this Instructable!) and they were very patient and polite from their end. There were also some email problems in that emails coming back were totally blank. I was able to read the source text and at least work out who they were from but I nearly did delete the mail as junk mail. Finally I ended up communicating by Skype text. They all write very good English which is a bit embarrassing as my Mandarin is non existent. My kids are learning Mandarin at school though.
Payment was via Paypal which remains safer than using a credit card (for both parties) and far cheaper than an interbank transfer.
I hope this Instructable is useful. I have built many hundreds of prototype boards over the last twenty years but I think from now on I will be getting boards made professionally.
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Jun 12, 2009. 9:59 AMracing_turtles
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This instructable is right on! It enabled me to create my files and the board came out perfectly. Thanks so much! Ali
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Jun 7, 2008. 3:33 PMjazzplayermark
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As a new Eagle user and being retired 12 years from design, this Instructable was a HUGE help. thanks so much for taking the time to put it together. mark
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