[sdiy] Interest in Synthacon VCF PCB?

[Michael Ruberto]

Alright I have a few orders now. This is encouraging. Since you are helping 
me out by ordering these PCBs you are saving me money. This means I can 
afford to eat domestic shipping costs. Orders outside the continental United 
States will need to pay shipping and I'll only ask for the actual cost here.

The goal with this is to get nicer quality PCBs for less. The actual file 
for Express PCB is here:
http://www.somnium7.com/samples/rev4.pcb

If you open the file and compute cost for 24 pieces shipping to Virginia 
USA, it comes to...

$13.285833333333333333333333333333/each

I rounded up to cover packaging.

Feel free to use the file to order your own if you're not a group-order-type 
of person. However, if there is enough people interested I can increase the 
number of PCBs ordered and reduce the overall price. I am willing to do that 
within limits. I've done a few mass-orders here before so I know they get a 
bit crazy after a point. Should the situation arise, I'm gonna stop at 50 
pieces regardless.. Sorry but more than that is too much work for me. At 50 
pieces the price per board comes to $7.1692 and again I will round up to 
$7.50 to cover envelopes and such.

I thank you all for the interest and for helping me get better PCBs than I 
can usually afford.

Mike

PS: the circuit has been in use for two years now. works great and sounds 
fantastic. I added functionallity to the design but kept the sound true to 
the actual synth. The FET output booster makes it sound more like it's going 
through the original diode VCA in the actual Synthacon IMO. Probably not 
important to most people but it is to me.
OTOH, The turbo mode is nice for people like me who love something trully 
excessive from time to time.

>From: "Michael Ruberto" <frankentron at hotmail.com>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] Interest in Synthacon VCF PCB?
>Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:29:54 -0400
>
>I now have 3 projects requiring my Synthacon VCF circuit. Normally I'll 
>just order ExpressPCB's Econo 3 piece deal but I'd rather have solder 
>masked PCBs this time around. So, using the pricing calculator I see that I 
>can get 24 silkscreened and solder masked PCBs for $13.50 each. That beats 
>the $20 each of the Econo deal for plain boards.
>
>So the question is... are there 21 people interested in these PCBs?
>
>Here's info on the design:
>
>http://www.somnium7.com/samples/synthacon_VCF-REV04-PCB.gif
>
>http://www.somnium7.com/samples/synthacon_VCF-REV5-SCM.gif
>
>Looking at my financial status I should be able to place this order on the 
>15th of August possibly sooner.
>
>Please reply off-list.
>
>Thanks
>
>M. A. Ruberto
>
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