Prototype PCB run ~$300 for 1 or two PCBs to about ~$500 for about 25 to 50
boards where the lower numbers would be for a physically larger board. This
includes about $200+ for the artwork.
I use him all the time and have never been let down.
If you are paying $2K, you need to contact Don Skowronski
<dski@nutronicspcb.com> for a quote.
---
Ron
WYsixK wrote:
> The smallest amount a PCB house will accept here in Silicon Valley is
> about $2000. Even for a handful of simple boards (customers supplies
> the artwork). Show me a house that will make a one-off for $27! Give
> me their contact info and I'll give them some business!
>
> Michael
>
> --- Jim Strohm <jstrohm@texas.net> wrote:
> > WYsixK <wy6k@yahoo.com> says--
> >
> > >Now I read this again and realize that Steve Katz mentioned the ways
> > in
> > >which the RFE amps failed to meet FCC requirements. So is the issue
> > >not that the FCC dislikes kits per se but that the kits that are
> > >offered do not meet FCC requirements?
> > >
> > >I checked out the Communications Concepts web site and see that the
> > PCB
> > >for their 1000 watt solid state amp is $27. What's outrageous about
> > >that?
> >
> >
> > Do you know what fabricated PCBs cost, even in short runs?
> >
> > With the art work in hand, I could go to a custom board house and
> > have
> > one-off boards custom-made for less than what CCI is asking. In a
> > quantity
> > run, the price would fall well below two dollars a board very
> > quickly.
> >
> > And -- did you happen to check the price of the active devices for
> > that
> > 1000-watt CCI amp? You probably will not believe me when I tell you
> > that
> > it's over $900.
> >
> > On the other hand -- most of the RFE amps use the 2SC2879 device,
> > which
> > sells in small-handful quantities at about $15. each. Properly
> > biased and
> > heatsinked, these are good for 100 watts each all day long.
> >
> > So on the one hand you've got CCI selling amps made from expensive,
> > hard-to-power, hard-to-cool Motorola devices, and on the other hand
> > you've
> > got RFE selling amps made from cheap, easy-to-power, easy-to-cool
> > Japanese
> > devices.*
> >
> > The RFE amp goes straight out the door and under the dash of a semi
> > for
> > about 20% of the cost of the CCI amp -- which requires some
> > relatively
> > sophisticated work to power up.
> >
> > Are you starting to get a clue about the political and societal
> > ramifications of the RFE decision?**
> >
> > I've never advocated the unlawful use of amps on 11 meters. However,
> > I've
> > never completely agreed with how the FCC chose to close the 27 MHz
> > barn
> > doors after all the horses ran off in the mid 1970s. That appalling
> > lack
> > of enforcement was mirrored in the FCC's laissez-faire attitude about
> > the
> > ham bands until only a few years ago. Fortunately, we hams are a
> > little
> > bit better at self-regulation than the CBers, except for maybe on a
> > few
> > narrow slivers of the phone bands.
> >
> > Jim N6OTQ
> >
> > * You need to see the inside of a Texas Star 667.*** And THEN
> > explore the
> > reasons why you can legally buy this and other Texas Star radios
> > legally,
> > and why they're all FCC type accepted.
> >
> > ** And what about the FCC's decision to add 17 CB channels in 1977, a
> > choice that put Hy-Gain out of business at a time when we could not
> > afford
> > to hemorrhage any more jobs to Japan, Inc.?
> >
> > *** And then compare THAT to the inside of an Ameritron ALS600.
> >
> >
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