[sdiy] rising cost of PCB's?

[yves usson]

Yes prices have been rising.

I see two main reasons for this :
1) the price of copper has ramatically rised over the five past years
2) most of the boards are now RoHS, which requires different processing
techniques...

Cheers

Yves

Dan Snazelle a écrit :
>
> hey there
>
> i started doing synth diy about 2 and half almost 3 yrs ago. when i 
first started buying pcbs many of them were in the 5 to 10  or at most
12  to 15 dollar range. (plus shipping)
>
> now i am seeing more and more boards that are 15, 17, 18,  20, 25, 30 
and up up up
>
> i was just wondering if this is due to the cost of pcb manufacturing 
going up? the strength of the dollar?
>
> or am i just crazy and imagining that the prices are going up?
>
> granted i am not talking about big pcb boards. multi board projects 
or things like the asm2.
>
> just wondering.
>
> thanks!
>
Yves Usson
http://yusynth.net