Alan King wrote:
> Stefan Trethan wrote:
>
>>But what am i doing, wasting my time here. Let them believe what they want
>>i have work to do.
>
> Heard that. Part of the reason I've dropped in and out of the
> discussions lately has been working on more important things.
> Especially now with PCBEx cutting the quantity in half from CustomPCB, a
> single even low volume producing product can pay for made boards.
> $125+ship for five 8x10 boards is simply very reasonable. I still have
> my stack of 4 laserjets and will test out direct print to board fully
> when other things are going a bit more smoothly, but until then I doubt
> I'll make many more boards by hand, TT or UV. Simply too cheap to have
> them made, I doubt you can come out much ahead even if you just count
> minimum wage for your time.. Still ok if you just have to have an
> instant board, but that usually isn't so important vs a week or so.
>
> Alan
Even if they gave the boards to me for free, it's still much more expensive
than doing it myself. If i design a pcb, i can build it in an hour keeping
my same train of thought and get a result, and even iterate a new board if
needed. Getting them made outside means waiting atleast a week (usually two
or three unless you pay double).