It took about 4 weeks total.Īlignment of solder mask, drill, and silk are all very good. Probably I should talk to the guys at Diptrace about this – one click PCB build and stuff would be a nice feature.įinal Update: PCBs received. Worth it.įinal note is that I could easily compete with this price ($14 labor + $10 hidden handling cost per board) with an operation in Ukraine. These two activities are purportedly solved for $24/board. The giant pains for us are applying solder paste and soldering lots of 0201s and other micro components. Moreover, we’ll need to rework these parts anyway during testing for energy and impedance.

We will need to do the QFNs and LGAs ourselves, but these parts are easy for us to solder as long as the solder paste is already there (it will be). Basically a $24 additional cost per board. Original quote was ~$50/unit, I removed three ICs (two QFN, one LGA), quote became ~$20/unit. Note: cost goes down to $3/unit for large volumeĬost: generally a 2x markup on all parts. I’ll add more once I get the boards, but I want to start now while it’s fresh in my memory. I just pulled the trigger on a set of 10 proto PCBs from PCBway, with included purchasing and assembly.

Diptrace pricing