RE: [N8VEM-S100:4997] PCB Via Counts

["John Monahan" <mon...@vitasoft.org>]

Do they do gold fingers?
If so what cost per board
John


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From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Don Caprio
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 11:21 AM
To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:4997] PCB Via Counts

I've been using a manufacturer here in the USA (IL).
They have waived setup fee for me a couple times and work hard at being
competitive.

75 boards with gold fingers, 10 days @ about $12 a board.
Check them out. They are good folks.

http://www.pcbnet.com


On 08/22/14 11:00 AM, John Monahan wrote:
> They seem to classify  less than 500 or greater.  It does not seem to make
a
> big difference in price as far as I can tell (at least with PCBCart).
The
> number 1 factor, is the number of boards.  There is a "setup fee" fee 
> of
> $70-$80 for each new board. After that it's a board cost.  Just place 
> the
> (large)  order for the 80386 + RAM boards, total ~100 boards, works 
> out to be ~$13/board.
>
> John
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] 
> On Behalf Of Don Caprio
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 9:50 AM
> To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:4992] PCB Via Counts
>
>
> Are there any guidelines for acceptable number of via's on an S-100 
> PCB? How do quantity factor into manufacturing?
> I'm guessing fewer number means less cost and possibly shorter overall 
> trace lengths.
>
> Autorouter starts to slow down and eliminate less and less.
> Doesn't seem like it's worth it to continue to run autorouter to 
> reduce via with results like 1 or 2 a day.
>
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