I just wanted a quote. But signup was painful it needs a major review. Then I uploaded a zip of my gerbers and it came up with some error that I could not figure out and halted any further movement. I'd love to do my PCBs domestic but the site makes it way too hard.
I've been using Macrofab for a couple years now and their experience is MUCH smoother. Prices are a bit higher, but for me, that is not an issue.
How high?
1 million per piece. this is only for customers where price is not an issue.
Not familiar with the issue, but that has to be $1m minimum order, correct? And you would get a production run in 1-10k. How many revs does that include?
My understanding is that Shenzhen dominance so far is from 3 pillars - low minimum order size, low per-part price, and fast response. They can do that because they have lot of highly trained labor that work mad hours. So to compete you would need to leverage a lot of automation... which would be a lot less flexible and very rocky at the start. Would love to get a correction from someone more familiar with the situation.
Surely you mean $1m per project and not per board, and projects are at a large scale?
> 1 million per piece
Zimbabwean dollars I hope because 1 million usd PER BOARD?
Pray it doesn’t need RAM.
The Zimbabwean mint has never been busier
There aren't enough trees on earth.
Earlier this month I ordered some PCBs. Due to the tariffs OSH park was actually a viable competitor for small batch runs. I've also found them to be higher quality than PCB way
OSHPark is a nonstarter for many workflows because they don't do assembly. I can't do anything with a plain PCB!
And for me, I'd rather do my own assembly than pay $1400 for five boards from Circuithub that I can get from JLCPCB for $20 or OSHPark for $50.
For simple-to-medium boards you can assemble it yourself... No help if you're making a motherboard or whatever though.
Downside to this: it takes a long time, I have to source the parts myself, and I can't separate design or programming errors from soldering errors. (There will be many of those) I have not figured out a system to So: Having JLC do the assembly is a no-brainer for the projects I've done.
eish sorry about the bad experience here. If you could drop a note to support@circuithub.com we'll get you fixed up.
Also uploaded an old gerber export straight from KiCAD and no dice. The project files themselves seemed to work.