[sdiy] Importance of electrical test at PCB manufacturing?

[Dave Manley]

Sorry, I don't get your point.  The manufacturer wants to build the 
minimum number of boards, using the minimum amount of material to yield 
what the customer ordered.  It is in their best interest to make the 
highest quality boards to minimize their cost, and to sell the 
"insurance" to maximize their profit.  It is pretty cynical to think 
they would manufacture bad boards only if you didn't buy the electrical 
test, so that next time you'd learn your lesson and pay for it.  If I 
received bad boards, and could document the fault, I'd probably find 
another vendor if they didn't replace them at their cost.

-Dave

Andreas Wetterberg wrote:
> *puts on cynic-hat*
>
> The problem at hand here is that you have a company that has a vested 
> interest in actually doing bad boards, conditioning people into buying 
> insurance to help correct what could just as easily be intentionally 
> bad service...
>
> To me it all sounds like the classic monty python sketch with the 
> mafia shaking down the army: "you wouldn't want any of yer tanks to 
> go... missing, would ya?"
>
> /cynic-mode.
>
> Andreas.
>
> Paul Perry skrev:
>> If a board is propely laid out, and only single or double sided,
>> it would be very unusual inded for there to be an error in the form 
>> of a short or track break.
>>
>> I think it has only happened to me twice in thousands of boards.
>>
>> paul perry Melbourne Australia
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