Interesting looking boardhouse

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Hi all, just wanted to share this with everyone. I found a boardhouse called http://www.ourpcb.com/ that has really good looking prices. It is in China and claims a 10day turn-around on 1-6 layers. The other thing that makes me feel safe is that they take PayPal and are offering COD.

Does anyone have experience with them? And… can anyone see any flaws?

I am itching to use them. For the price ~$60 I may just use them and report the results.

thanks!!

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joelotz:
Hi all, just wanted to share this with everyone. I found a boardhouse called http://www.ourpcb.com/ that has really good looking prices. It is in China and claims a 10day turn-around on 1-6 layers. The other thing that makes me feel safe is that they take PayPal and are offering COD.

Does anyone have experience with them? And… can anyone see any flaws?

I am itching to use them. For the price ~$60 I may just use them and report the results.

thanks!!

I hate to say it…but depending on board size…they are not very competetive when getting to 4 layers and above. I can get better prices in the US.

James L

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propellanttech:

joelotz:
Hi all, just wanted to share this with everyone. I found a boardhouse called http://www.ourpcb.com/ that has really good looking prices. It is in China and claims a 10day turn-around on 1-6 layers. The other thing that makes me feel safe is that they take PayPal and are offering COD.

Does anyone have experience with them? And… can anyone see any flaws?

I am itching to use them. For the price ~$60 I may just use them and report the results.

thanks!!

I hate to say it…but depending on board size…they are not very competetive when getting to 4 layers and above. I can get better prices in the US.

James L

I agree - even Advanced Circuits beats them at many of those prices - and Advanced Circuits is often pretty spendy.
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They might not be too amazing for prototyping quantities, but I think you’ll be surprised if you start working with them on large quantities of assembled devices. It really made me wonder at the retail prices charged for a lot of the electronic products we buy.

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macegr:
They might not be too amazing for prototyping quantities, but I think you’ll be surprised if you start working with them on large quantities of assembled devices. It really made me wonder at the retail prices charged for a lot of the electronic products we buy.

Well…that may be true…but I do not order any assembled devices, because I own a SMT assembly company. I just need the bare boards…so the price is important.

James L