[sdiy] PCB Panel Recommendations

[Roman Sowa]

Don't be so sure about Buchla ordering anything high-tech. I can't tell 
about other products, but for example Music Easel contains the cheapest 
unbranded junk potentiometers you can find. Hopefully they have changed 
it in later models, but it was a big surprise for me and a legend go 
down the toilet when I serviced one. Wouldn't surprise me if the PCBs 
were made in cheapest China fab too.

As for pro-grade PCB fabs, there are a lot of them in China too.  I 
regularly get spam from them, and just by reading their technical 
capabilities they make JLC look silly.

Roman

W dniu 2022-08-09 o 04:06, brianw pisze:
> I'm certain that Buchla was not ordering any parts from hobbyist-grade fab houses.
>
> There are plenty of professional-grade manufacturing options that don't cater to online automated ordering. They use the old-fashioned telephone system to handle orders. It's amazing to hold a cheap prototype PCB next to a professional grade PCB fab. You can see the difference in precision with the naked eye.
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> It's just that it's so tempting to go to China and get unpredictable results because the cost is so low. We all know that Buchla products are *not* cheap.
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> Brian
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