Board cost depends on quantity, the more you have made, the lower the
per board cost.
PCBCart.com charges a "tooling" charge for a new design. They do look
over the designs carefully and reorders don't incur that charge.
To get an idea, I had a run of Joerg Hoppe's DEC Flip-Chip Extender Hex
+5 boards made (http://retrocmp.com/tools/dec-flip-chip-extenders)
I had 20 made. My total (board cost, share of tooling, share of
shipping and share of customs at that time) per board cost is $42.60
(I'm selling them for $42 as I didn't get the customs charge until later).
On 12/6/2021 7:21 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
I haven't priced anything out yet. My current project will have
reasonably large sized board but will be using DIN 41612 style
connectors (so I don't need edge fingers). I haven't gone to
different board vendors yet to see what pricing will be yet (still
settling on board size and number of layers...right now it looks like
it'll be 4 layers).
On 12/6/21 3:50 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
For other boards without gold fingers where would you recommend and
how expensive for omnibus size boards?
On 12/6/2021 5:07 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
On 12/6/21 2:45 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
If I may8 ask a question. I have never had boards made before. How
do I find a good board house that is reasonable and how do I
specify the board especially for the PDP-8 Omnibus which should
have gold fingers on the edge connectors?
Anything the size of an Omnibus board with gold fingers is *not*
going to be "reasonable" especially if you want "hard gold" (which
IMHO is the only way to go if you want reasonable life of the boards
and sockets).
I've used Advanced Circuits for all my boards that needed gold
fingers (they are *not* cheap...you've been warned). When you
submit your Gerber files, you also specify if you have edge fingers
and how you want them plated. I have been 100% satisfied with the
boards that I've received from them.
TTFN - Guy