Anyone ever use EZPCB for board manufacturing?

[Taylor]

These guys have really intrigued me.

ezpcb.com

They are pretty cheap for a run of 10, and they apparently will fill your board in with passive components (up to 200) and fully assemble one board for you.

Anyone have any experience with these guys?

[Zben3129]

I was just messing around with the calculator and chose all the default settings, with a 2x3" board chosen, and 10 boards came out to be approx $158. The price for 100 boards came out to $167. If your gonna do 10, you might as well do 100, or 200. The setup cost of 100 and shipping cost of 50 is the whole price, the boards cost almost nothing.

10 boards for $158, each board would be $15.80
100 boards for $167, each board would be $1.67


Zach

[Evad Nomenclature]

+1

I was messing with that too... I would say it seems like a very good thing for someone who wants to make a small run for sales of a designed circuit.
And yes, the cost differencial is negligable once you start doing larger runs.
Thanks for pointing it out.  It might be a service I use in the future.

[Ice-9]

Iv'e been looking at www.pcbcart.com . it seems quite a bit cheaper and also looks good. Does anyone have any dealings with these

[Taylor]

Well, for pure cheapness, Futurlec is actually cheaper. I was mostly just curious about them populating your boards for you...

[Taylor]

Just an update in case anyone is searching for these guys in the future: I had my boards made, and they came out beautifully, but they were unable to give me any components or populate a board for me, so don't consider that freebie if you're comparing PCB fabbers.

[Cliff Schecht]

Just an update in case anyone is searching for these guys in the future: I had my boards made, and they came out beautifully, but they were unable to give me any components or populate a board for me, so don't consider that freebie if you're comparing PCB fabbers.

Having parts mounted and soldered to a PCB is quite the labor intensive task. For low production volume, especially with thru-hole components, it's quite expensive because of all of the special tooling required.

[Ice-9]

Just an update in case anyone is searching for these guys in the future: I had my boards made, and they came out beautifully, but they were unable to give me any components or populate a board for me, so don't consider that freebie if you're comparing PCB fabbers.

Having parts mounted and soldered to a PCB is quite the labor intensive task. For low production volume, especially with thru-hole components, it's quite expensive because of all of the special tooling required.

Any chance you can upload a picture of the pcbs that you got back so we can see the quality please.

[DougH]

Those aren't bad prices. And getting the board fab'ed and drilled is worth it to me. I can populate them myself. That's the easy part.

Thanks for the links!

[StereoKills]

Having parts mounted and soldered to a PCB is quite the labor intensive task. For low production volume, especially with thru-hole components, it's quite expensive because of all of the special tooling required.

It looks to me like the populated boards need to be SMD, not thru-hole. That makes it pretty easy, reflow oven anyone? Heck, if I'm going to order custom PCB's anyway, I'd go with SMD since it's more compact, neater and in my opinion, easier to work with.

[rogerray]

I have heard nothing but good words of them. We worked with them for a few years.

Maybe EzPCB is not the cheapest, but for serious projects they are the best, highly recommend.

Don't know how to post a picture here or I will show you our ARM-9 boards fabricated and assemblied by them.

Ray

[Taylor]

Hey Ray, I do appreciate that advice, it's only a few years too late! 

Since then I've had lots of boards made by them. Got a big box today, in fact. Have no complaints.