PJ, would you feel better if we called it Prop-corn? Or is that the term we use for off-topic chatter? In any case, one must pop a prop onto a PCB to make it work.
Feelings, who cares?· The Subject is about board vendors, it's not about the Propeller.··There's·zero, zilch, nada, zippo, l'ove, naught·about the Propeller.··
Why don't I get to post whatever I want wherever I want just like everybody else?
By the same tangential mental process, if I tape a Propeller to my shoe and ask a question about running marathons then it's Propeller-related, ne c'est freaking pas?
I've used PCFabExpress several times and been very happy with them. I was doing boards that used 74HC595's and ULN2803's to drive up to 50 relays from 3 I/O pins on my Propeller based pipe organ controller and my fireworks firing system. (There - I mentioned Propellor and didn't mention p**corn!)
I'm listening in and picking up that a lot of you are doing batches of PCBs. I just ordered my 2nd ExpressPCB miniboard having discovered 4 errors in my 1st one. (It's OK. I don't mind paying for my education.) Do any of you have companies do the soldering or other types of assembly?
I used Sunstone Circuites a few weeks ago after reading about them here. Their turn-around time was better than expected, and UPS ground from Oregon to San Jose was only two working days. The order was very small and was reasonably priced. Thanks for mentioning Sunstone.
I need to place a new order with Sunstone, I went over the options yesterday to see how prices vary between their plans. The main plans are pcbexpress "quick turn" which has the boards at your door in 3 days. The other plan is for larger production runs. The prices for the quick turn are far better unless you are ordering hundreds of boards, but even then you'd come out better order multiples of boards with quick turn (max 30 boards per order 12"x14" largest). The other thing about the quickturn is, that if you order a 12"x14" and cram as much as you can on it, it is far cheaper to route your own boards versus ordering individual boards. Their quoting section easily lets you enter info and compare between their services without having to re enter the info between services. So the short version of this is, order large boards and route your individual boards for much better pricing per sq in.
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If your name was Tracy Allen... you could pretty much post anywhere that you wanted[noparse]:)[/noparse]
Rich
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Tracy Allen
www.emesystems.com
Why don't I get to post whatever I want wherever I want just like everybody else?
By the same tangential mental process, if I tape a Propeller to my shoe and ask a question about running marathons then it's Propeller-related, ne c'est freaking pas?
As for the popcorn... don't push me.
You're technically correct. This should be in the sandbox. The wiki links to this thread would also need to change if that occurs.
But there is a bigger war raging. It's come to my attention that the sandbox is even more polluted with OT posts that don't mention sand boxes.
It's by far the cheapest I have found, about 10 day turnaround and you can pay via paypal.
Greg
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