Message for Adam and/or Tom,
But open to anyone (Those two just have made it known they've done
some higher volume processing)
What would you suggest for a person wanting to make perhaps 20 9x12
boards a day (gonna use 8x11 of this), but not necessarily every day.
In other words, figure 100 boards this size per month (these are
the "paneled up" size; I'll shear and/or route the final board sizes
from these panels). But I don't want to make pcb's every day! One
week a month sounds okay, which is how I got the 20 bds/day figure.
I have pcb drills (obviously<G>), and can screen print. Doing it
already for lettering of PU painted metal.
I can make rectifiers for the plating.
What size "line" would I need to set up for two sided THP,
soldermasked, SMD (not fine pitch) boards?
So what I'm asking is, going beyond the one or two at a time, but not
quite into the low end of the PCB mfrs. price structure, what should
I do? (And what can I expect?)
Is setting up a line this size mostly about preserving/gaining the
ability to make quick revisions? Or could it be fairly called money-
saving?
Thank you in advance,
Ballendo
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Adam Seychell
<adam_seychell@y...> wrote:
>
>
> Jeremy Taylor wrote:
> > My last post must been sent just prior to yours.
> >
> > I actually ended up completely closing up some holes with the
acid copper.
>
> Does that mean the alkaline plate was more capable of completely
> covering the holes walls with copper than compared to acid copper
> plating ? Which bath was better ?
>
>
> > It' definitely a more aggressive plate.
>
> yes, the acid copper is fast, almost 100% coulombetric
> efficient, good throwing power and easy to maintain and setup.
> This is why I suspect you have chosen alkaline plating because it
> performed better when plating on the ink surface.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam