[sdiy] source for many, small, simple PCB's ?? for educational use

Seb Francis seb at burnit.co.uk
Wed Mar 4 00:16:44 CET 2009


Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Seb Francis wrote:
>>
>> Might also be worth looking at Gold Phoenix - this is who Batch PCB 
>> use.  Anyone have experience of the quality for high-density layouts 
>> from here?
>
> BatchPCB / Gold Phoenix quality is not excellent, just OK. I've seen 
> registration issues between pads & solder mask on some boards of up to 
> 5mil. I've had traces shorted to surrounding ground plane with defects 
> that weren't in the gerbers. At this point I do quick continuity & 
> short checks on all power supplies before starting to solder.
>

I guess I'll stick to Eurocircuits (www.thepcbshop.com / 
www.eurocircuits.com) for the Digi-Mod boards then ... never had any 
problem with the quality from them.

Seb






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