I've been using Macrofab for a couple years now and their experience is MUCH smoother. Prices are a bit higher, but for me, that is not an issue.
replyHow high?
reply1 million per piece. this is only for customers where price is not an issue.
replyNot familiar with the issue, but that has to be $1m minimum order, correct? And you would get a production run in 1-10k. How many revs does that include?
replyMy understanding is that Shenzhen dominance so far is from 3 pillars - low minimum order size, low per-part price, and fast response. They can do that because they have lot of highly trained labor that work mad hours. So to compete you would need to leverage a lot of automation... which would be a lot less flexible and very rocky at the start. Would love to get a correction from someone more familiar with the situation.
Surely you mean $1m per project and not per board, and projects are at a large scale?
reply> 1 million per piece
replyZimbabwean dollars I hope because 1 million usd PER BOARD?
Pray it doesn’t need RAM.
replyThe Zimbabwean mint has never been busier
replyThere aren't enough trees on earth.
replyEarlier this month I ordered some PCBs. Due to the tariffs OSH park was actually a viable competitor for small batch runs. I've also found them to be higher quality than PCB way
replyOSHPark is a nonstarter for many workflows because they don't do assembly. I can't do anything with a plain PCB!
replyAnd for me, I'd rather do my own assembly than pay $1400 for five boards from Circuithub that I can get from JLCPCB for $20 or OSHPark for $50.
replyFor simple-to-medium boards you can assemble it yourself... No help if you're making a motherboard or whatever though.
replyDownside to this: it takes a long time, I have to source the parts myself, and I can't separate design or programming errors from soldering errors. (There will be many of those) I have not figured out a system to So: Having JLC do the assembly is a no-brainer for the projects I've done.
replyeish sorry about the bad experience here. If you could drop a note to support@circuithub.com we'll get you fixed up.
replyAlso uploaded an old gerber export straight from KiCAD and no dice. The project files themselves seemed to work.
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