I am looking for a fab house for pc boards. I have graduated from PCB Express (or is it Express PCB?) into PADS. I will be looking for prototype quantities mainly 4 layers with route-able inner layers. Heavy copper >4oz would be good.
I am not looking for the most inexpensive, I just want a fair price.
If you have a house you use and like please pass it on.
Thank you. Bob
We use Cirexx and Gorilla for production stuff.
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I use PCBWay for that stuff. Dunno if they have heavy copper. Pro tip: definitely buy their stainless steel stencils--they're cheap and come mounted to bulletproof aluminum weldments.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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I use E-teknet in Arizona. Boards made in China, of course, but they have their own people in house to do QC. Not the cheapest, but they can do fairly difficult boards (6 layer and pretty small line/space) with no trouble. I've had them do several hundred different boards, and thousands of units, and REALLY close to zero defects.
Jon
Here is what I have been using lately. For production and quick-turn: Advanced Circuits
I've been very happy with both. I will say that the quality on 2-layer boards at PCBWay is a bit on the low end, don't push the limits with via sizes and trace/space there.
PCBWay also pissed me off a couple times when they didn't honor my soldermask layer and made up their own for some reason with zero relief from the pads!
Advanced Circuits has always been very professional and easy to work with.
Right I was going to say we use advanced circuits, They do heavy copper, we used 2 oz or 4 oz for some magnet shim coils. No problems.
George H.
I have been using
Paul
Wow! Thank you VERY much!
4 oz copper ? that's massive.... and you're going to get hit on price big time..
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Thanks a lot for the input. I'll mull them over and try a few.
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