Hello All
I submitted my 1st design to BatchPCB on 3/10…panel #1342…it’s been processing ever since.
More than 2 weeks… is this typical?
Robert
Baldwinville, MA
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Well please…don’t all of you respond at once! Sheesh! :roll:
It’s now been Processing for 21 days…
This is not an SFE technical support forum, but rather a user community of SFE product users. Sounds like your questions would best be answered by a call to tech support.
fll-freak:
This is not an SFE technical support forum, but rather a user community of SFE product users. Sounds like your questions would best be answered by a call to tech support.
The initial question i posed was directed at users who have had PCB’s fabbed by BatchPCB… i wanted to know what their experiences were with wait times.
…and I have e-mailed BatchPCB…repeatedly… for a information… they have, as yet, not responded to me.
R
In my case, I have done 5 orders and the processing time were 16, 17, 17, 23 and 35 days (newer orders in first place). So I think your order be ready to be sent in a few days.
Don’t get nervous, I know it’s hard the wait until they arrive!! :roll:
Anywhere from a few days to a month is pretty normal with any product not sent express from PRC. The ‘few days’ is if you’re lucky and your package happened to get onto a plane that’s going directly to a city near you, and ‘a month’ is if you’re unlucky and they put it on a freight ship instead. And that’s not counting the time it takes to mail from the BatchPCB guys to you 
However, BatchPCB obviously have a deal with Gold Phoenix on how shipments occur, and your question might have been answered by their FAQ:
[BatchPCB FAQ: How long does it take to get my order?
There are quicker alternatives - Google is your friend there. It’s usually a simple trade-off of money vs willingness to wait, but sometimes the trade-off is more subtle; like not being able to do production runs of your designs at the same place, having different design rules (rounding off of mils which suddenly make your pads’/vias’ annular violate their spec), or doing PCBs with purple solder masks by default with no specific choice for another color (in case that matters; I rather like the purple, and the place making these seems like a fair choice for U.S. residents needing smallish boards).](OSH Park ~)
Processing means your order has been put on a panel and sent out for production.
I’m hesitant to use this service for this reason!
For the price I am willing to wait 2 weeks. But anything longer than that is bonkers.
There are company’s out there can do $33 dollar boards in a days! :shock:
sambuchi:
I’m hesitant to use this service for this reason!For the price I am willing to wait 2 weeks. But anything longer than that is bonkers.
There are company’s out there can do $33 dollar boards in a days! :shock:
Then go with those companies. With BatchPCB you usually get double your order for free…lets see your 33$/board shops do that. All my past orders have been dupes…I.e, I order 2, i get 4, I order 1, I get 2. Stop wining. Average time is 3 weeks for my past orders. Stop being impatient. IF you had some math skills you guys wouldn’t have to keep asking this… look at your panel #, look at the last panel # and it’s ship date, and do the math. If Panel 1234 shipped yesterday, and you’re on Panel 1235, you’ll probably get your board shipped in a day or two.