Where to get PCBs from, some companies blocked by PayPal and credit card issuers......

[Dekatron42]

Hi,

Recently I've been unable to buy circuit boards that I've designed myself from the PCB manufacturing companies in China that I regularly use as I was told by my credit card issuer that PayPal and MasterCard have blocked/banned these companies due to involvement in crypto currency scams and sale of crypto currency mining equipment. I can't even pay with PayPal to email addresses registered by these companies nor those registered by people involved with these companies, they have all been blocked by PayPal I was told. It took me some time to find this out and I am not sure that my credit card issuer was allowed to give me this much information as they have declined to answer any of my followup questions.

I was mainly using some Chinese companies as they were quite cheap at just USD $4.90 for 10 PCBs up to 100mm by 100mm plus shipping and they have always had good quality no matter what strangely looking circuit boards that I made, even with complicated outlines and holes and up to 2 layers, just a tad bit more expensive for 4 layers. The price has been a big factor for me when making prototypes, sometimes just ordering the PCBs to see how they fit in the enclosure they were intended for, without actually soldering any components, just trying them out for space.

Are there any other companies out there that have similarly low prices, I tried PCBWAY and OSHPARK with a small 2 layer circuit board just 71mm by 82mm and they were asking 10 times the cost and would only supply 1 or 3 circuit boards for that price plus the shipping cost was 4-5 times as expensive.

So, what cheap, but still acceptable quality, PCB manufacturers do you use?

/Martin

[Mike Harrison]

I usually use JLCPCB and ALLPCB

[gregebert]

I've been using PCBway for several years now. Their standard thruput is 24 hours....yes, that's the standard time, not expedited.

Shipping by DHL is about 2 days; if you choose cheaper shipping such as USPS,  it can take almost a month.

Their quality is excellent.

Once, I had my gerber files go out Friday afternoon, and boards delivered Monday afternoon.

[Richard Scales]

+1 for JLCPCB - extremely affordable and delivery options to suit all circumstances. I am generally happy to wait over 2 weeks if the delivery charge is only $5 to the UK. Similarly if I absolutely positively have to have it in a few days then their expedited service is excellent.

I am completely unsure but ny first ever order with them cost about $9 for 10 boards and I got them in a couple of days (beginners luck?) - nothing like that since then but production and delivery status information is available at all times.

 - RIchard

[martin martin]

Here's where I go:

http://mpi-pcb.com/contact-mpi.php

Local USA and very good!

~

mcve...@gmail.com

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/50e3555d-9efc-433d-8db2-4f58af56f5adn%40googlegroups.com.

[Toby Thain]

On 2021-12-24 9:52 a.m., martin martin wrote:
> Here's where I go:

> http://mpi-pcb.com/contact-mpi.php <http://mpi-pcb.com/contact-mpi.php>

>
> Local USA and very good!
>
>

Surprised nobody has mentioned OSHpark yet (on google results they are
buried under four ads for other companies...)

https://oshpark.com/

They take native KiCAD files. Just a satisfied customer.


--Toby

[ZY]

I also use OSHPark but only because for small pcbs they have they are the cheapest ENIG option. I know it probably makes no difference, but the after dark PCBs with ENIG do look nice.

If another supplier can do the same look but cheaper I'd have no issue with swapping, since for anything larger than a tiny PCB the oshpark prices get high real quick.

I have had a couple boards from them in the past where there were some manufacturing defects like connecting traces. They give you 3 per order so it's usually fine, but it did lose me a bit of time and wasted components trying to debug.

Also I recall in the past when they were BatchPCB they would clean the board edges. They don't do that anymore, meaning I have to individually dremel and clean the breaking points of each pcb, which is an annoyance to do safely if you have a bunch of small pcbs and don't want to breath in pcb dust (it's also itchy if you get it on your hands).

[Adrian Godwin]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 2:20 AM ZY <zongy...@gmail.com> wrote:

Also I recall in the past when they were BatchPCB they would clean the board edges. They don't do that anymore, meaning I have to individually dremel and clean the breaking points of each pcb, which is an annoyance to do safely if you have a bunch of small pcbs and don't want to breath in pcb dust (it's also itchy if you get it on your hands).

I usually clip them off with cutters rather than sand them. Blunts or even snaps the cutters though so don't use the fine ones!