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osh park?
they make great quality
only downside is that the pads aren't tinned (use flux)
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yeah but its gold. anyway, I'm moving my PCB fabrication to china. I had a fab selected but it was a 3 month wait. now they are all sorted so its less than a 1 month wait now. and osh park is 3 weeks even though the website says 12 days. so yeah my cost is reduced and they are tinned now. I forgot to include a LED resistor and an on board LED so I can sell off a few more of these boards if anyone is interested.
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cloudscapes wrote:osh park?
they make great quality
only downside is that the pads aren't tinned (use flux)

But they are waaaaaay tougher than the average through-hole. You can solder/desolder a dozen times and they won't lift. The design speck at OSHP is perfect for prototyping/testing.

My only gripe is the lack of color choice for the soldermask. But for the price and ability to do such short runs, I'm fine with it.
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nice! my only criticisms are that you probably could have shifted things around a little for shorter traces between some of the components. at a quick glance you could probably swap the placement of the 2 transistors and that row of resistors and things would be a little neater (signal-wise)... just OCD shit. looks good though!
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getting smarter and using PCB mounted pots. that should save a lot of time. the board got smaller and now has two more components. this is an epic layout.
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