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<DIV>I was wondering, if you have never done this before, why do you believe you
can do better than</DIV>
<DIV>$8.00 a board. You are correct 200 is a small run. To build
your board, some one has to purchase</DIV>
<DIV>and stock all the components. Load them onto a SMD placement
machine. Apply solder paste, </DIV>
<DIV>place all the components, run it thru a IR oven and then verify by hand
that all the solder joints</DIV>
<DIV>are ok. OH and they have to have space to store all the stuff
while its being done and after its</DIV>
<DIV>done before shipping. So I say around 10 minutes per board when you
add up all the handling </DIV>
<DIV>and setup. So the company is going to average around $40 dollars an
hour. Which once you remove</DIV>
<DIV>overhead, hour rate for employees, calls on the phone to fix things.
Means they will probably</DIV>
<DIV>break even or loss money.</DIV>
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<DIV>There are some shops in the Raleigh area:</DIV>
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<DIV>Anuva formally IES Lighting near Aviation and Evans</DIV>
<DIV>GRT on the east side of NC State</DIV>
<DIV>Catalyst by the airport</DIV>
<DIV>GMI in Charlotte</DIV>
<DIV>Fawn </DIV>
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<DIV>Good luck in your search. </DIV>
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<DIV>Fred Ebeling</DIV>
<DIV>ECP Designs</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=email@adamhaile.net
href="mailto:email@adamhaile.net">Adam Haile</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=triembed@triembed.org
href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [TriEmbed] Reasonable PCB Asembly</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Now that I'm on the mailing list I figure I'll dive right
in...<BR><BR>Working on designing a geeky clock for resale and trying to make it
all surface mount components in an attempt to save board size and possibly
component cost. The board has about 40 components on it in total that are
surface mount and 4 more that we were planning on soldering by hand because they
are through hole (and that would've added even more cost to the assembly). I've
been working with Advanced Assemblies out in CA because they work with my usual
PCB fab house but they are quoting me at around $8 per board for the assembly
(in quantities of 200 board). I realize that at such low volume I'm probably
going to run into some pretty high prices, but it still seems to me that I can
do better. I've looked around online but figured I would see if any of you have
direct experience with other companies and if you liked them, should stay away,
etc. We'd love to go the surface mount route instead of making it a user
assembled kit (hoping for a broader audience) but that extra $8 would mean the
retail price would be <I>much</I> higher than we would like and think is
reasonable.
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<DIV>Any suggestions for assembly companies (and even PCB fab!) would be greatly
appreciated.</DIV></DIV>
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