Blazemaguire
Senior Member
Hi guys,
Teacher here. We normally build our student PCB boards in house, but with the cost of Rapid's photo-etch board, chemicals and technician time it's working out quite pricey to do this. I have heard lately that there are a few firms that do very reasonable prices on small quantity production runs of PCBs.
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations or experience of firms (ideally UK based) that do this? We are looking at approx 350 PCBs (we are a very large school!) about 50mm x 40mm size for each board
Though it removes some of the 'learning' from the experiences (i.e, students cleaning the PCBs, drilling the component holes) it would free up a lot of technician and lesson time to do other things.
Education is in a state at the moment and D&T (in my school at least) is losing money and curriculum time like there's no tomorrow so anything to save some pennies and claw back some lesson time can only help.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for your time.
Teacher here. We normally build our student PCB boards in house, but with the cost of Rapid's photo-etch board, chemicals and technician time it's working out quite pricey to do this. I have heard lately that there are a few firms that do very reasonable prices on small quantity production runs of PCBs.
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations or experience of firms (ideally UK based) that do this? We are looking at approx 350 PCBs (we are a very large school!) about 50mm x 40mm size for each board
Though it removes some of the 'learning' from the experiences (i.e, students cleaning the PCBs, drilling the component holes) it would free up a lot of technician and lesson time to do other things.
Education is in a state at the moment and D&T (in my school at least) is losing money and curriculum time like there's no tomorrow so anything to save some pennies and claw back some lesson time can only help.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for your time.