[sdiy] PCB Panels

[Pete Hartman]

I did a couple runs of aluminum PCB material with All PCB (allpcb.com).
For prototyping, good enough, but the tolerances were sloppy.  In one case
I had a bit shaved off the last inch or so of one side -- enough that you'd
see a noticeable gap with two panels next to each other.  In the other
case, the silkscreen was smeary.  In both cases, the mounting holes were
kinda sloppy too.

I was putting silkscreen on the aluminum side (back side), perhaps going
onto the mask side it would be better, but the sloppy holes and other
tolerances are such that I don't think I'm going to do any real runs like
this.

I've also done one run of regular PCB material panels with OSH, but they're
not someone I'd do bulk orders with due to cost.  The results were very
nice (though purple).

Pete




On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Chris McDowell <declareupdate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Has anyone here tried doing panels with PCBs? I've had metalphoto screw up
> enough orders that I'm ready to try something else! They're not -terrible-
> but they can't guarantee a tight tolerance and it always bugs me at least,
> drives me nuts at the most.
>
> If you've given it a shot, where has it worked out for you?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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