[sdiy] PCB Panel Recommendations

[jslee]

Shitty manufacturing is everywhere. IIRC Nonlinearcircuits stopped selling their gorgeous aluminium panels many years back because the (Australian) suppliers appeared unable to produce them without fatal scratches

(Now they’re having a hard time getting large unscratched PCB panels from JLCPCB…)

John


On Tue, 9 Aug 2022, at 20:46, Matthew Skala via Synth-diy wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022, Roman Sowa wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Unless I had actually seen and handled the product, I wouldn't put too
> much weight on the *claimed* capabilities of a spam-advertised Chinese
> fab.  When I was trying to get panels (aluminum, not PCB) made by mainland
> Chinese manufacturers on first starting NCS, I found significant gaps
> between what they would advertise; what they would commit to in the
> contract; and what they would actually deliver.  Just yesterday in my live
> stream I marked the occasion of using up my last Chinese-made panel.  I
> don't expect to buy more of those for a long time.  Maybe PCBs would be
> different, but I don't seen an obvious reason to expect they would be.
>
> -- 
> Matthew Skala
> North Coast Synthesis Ltd.
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