Hi guys,
I’d like to design and have a small PCB built. It’s very simple. It just has a few connections for power, video, audio and a few other things… and just routes the power around. So, no components - just wiring.
Any idea on the cost of this? Another site I found quotes $145. A bit much. I’m hoping BatchPCB has something cheaper. The board must be as small as possible, and it handles 12V.
Cost depends on the board size.
Leon
Thanks… I’m hoping to keep it down to around 15mm by 30mm, double sided.
Have you tried Batch PCB? Boards from them can take a long time to arrive, of course.
Leon
I’m on their site now, but can’t seem to see a price. Would it be anywhere around the $100 mark, or is this site providing pCBs for a lot less? I am now trying to use FreePCB to make a basic design, and see if I can get it costed.
It’ll be something $10 for three or four boards, at a guess. Price is $2 per sq inch. I never use them, they take too long. I think you have to upload your design to get a firm price.
Leon
Wow… not bad!
I’m cluless with regards PCBs, but this is a basic idea of what I need…
Basically, a connection to the +/- of my 12V battery, one for a 5V power input, a camera input, a mic input and an output to a video transmitter. Camera and mic work off 5V, Video Tx off 12V.
Does this look OK so far?](http://www.postimage.org/)
Are you sure you need a PCB for that? You should manage by just soldering / heat-shrinking a wire harness together…
Anyway, those tracks look pretty narrow. It’s almost always better to increase track width unless you don’t have the space.
Thanks Michael. Might be better to just do some wiring - you’re right.
A BatchPCB order will take about 4-5 weeks to get to Australia, from experience. Just saying.
Thanks Gussy - reason for me maybe wanting to do this is that… I can’t get the aircraft for another 6 to 8 weeks… I have an order (ever expanding, I must admit) at HobbyCity sitting on ‘Processing’ due to back ordered items… So, basically, time is not a problem. 
I think, if someone like you, made a design of one of these boards, and maybe got 20 or so printed - I’m pretty sure you could sell them for profit. Not much work on your side, as I’m sure designing the PCB would bepretty quick job. Maybe jumpers to control if the system will have an OSD connected… A jumber for whether or not the camera is 5V (That’s to help idiots like me… ).
Not viable?
Designing PCB’s is pretty quick, in fact I just sent about 20 of my designs off to get fab’d last week.
The problem is, there are too many different connectors, different voltages, different components, to make a “one size fits all” connection board. Plus it is extra weight/size people don’t want. It only takes me about 10mins to make up a harness with some wire solder and heatshrink anyway.
Ah, I see… there are too many combinations out there?
Ok then… Just make one for me then… That solves the harness setup for this:
That diagram makes it look complex, but most of those things just plug into each other already like the servos to osd pro, lipos to elogger, esc to motor etc.
The only bit you need to make cables for with that is for the power for the camera/tx/microphone.
The OSD Pro in itself is exactly the PCB you are trying to create 
You just need to put the right plugs on everything.
It will be a lot easier to see when you have everything sitting in front of you.
This is why I mostly have simple setups, there is only a few things I know that can break.
If you can manage single sided , perhaps you can make a pcb at home using TTS method. it may not have green mask, but works well
www.Futurlec.com offers a PCB making service for acceptable prices, and are based out of Australia IIRC. Check em out