Cheap PCB Company

[soundNERD]

I need to make a bunch of headphone amps for friends, and would find it easier just to have a company make my PCBs.

what is the cheapest company avaliable? the boards use surface mount chips but the masks and stuff isn't neccesary since i will hand-solder. they are about an inch by an inch and a half and single sides.

i dont want nothing fancy just a board that will work.

i would order about 10-20 of them

thanks, mike

[paulb]

Try this:
http://www.apcircuits.com/
What kind of headphone amps?

[jackinnj]

since this is probably a one-off, you might want to try www.expresspcb.com -- the reason being that you can download their software, or now load a schematic into their software -- i have been pretty happy with the orders that I've sent to www.pcbexpress.com, but I have the software to create the gerber, drill tool, and silkscreen files they need.

I used expresspcb when I first started sending PCB's out, then pcbexpress when I got sufficiently confident to order boards to sell to others. i am not averse to using others, however.

[digi01]

Hi soundNERD,can you offer the details of boards?Need other technologies?

If the project which you design with protel, I think that I can help you.The factory of Beijing are relatively low.

This is my RA-1 pcb design, two sided 63X51(MM),The total cost is 80/10pics.

[soundNERD]

heres a low quality copy of it

the circle thing isn't on the actual board

i have the original files in eagle

im talkin about less than 50 cents a board

otherwise ill just take the time with toner transfer and touching it up and stuff

also, the boards is smaller only 1 1/4 inch wide and 1 inch tall

[soundNERD]

Originally posted by paulb
Try this:
http://www.apcircuits.com/
What kind of headphone amps?

lm4881M - they have a rechargeable battery, and a bicolor LED for green on, red charge and combo red/green charge and on.

[hifiZen]

http://www.barebonespcb.com/

I rather doubt you'll find anything much cheaper than that. Forget about 50c / board unless you want to buy a few hundred of them... Materials cost is low, but there are fixed costs to process each order (CAD prep, tooling, handling, shipping, billing).

For single-side SMD, you might as well just go ahead and make 'em yourself... with no side-to-side alignment or drilling to do, this is super easy.

[bigparsnip]

Originally posted by digi01

This is my RA-1 pcb design, two sided 63X51(MM),The total cost is 80/10pics.

Is that 80 US dollars or something else, as that would be quite cheep considering the very small production run.

[Freddie]

Olimex:

www.olimex.com

[speaker]

Yet again, an example of why this is such a great forum.

Another invaluable thread.

speaker