You can safely get away with referring to English, Scots and Welsh people as "Brits" since we're all citizens of mainland Britain. I'm not so sure whether a Northern Irelander would be so happy with that epithet though.
Referring to a British citizen as an Englishman is, I suppose, akin to our referring to a citizen of the US of A as a (Goddam) Yank. :-)
If you have enough time, you can easily beat that price in China:
Last time I ordered, I paid around 12 EUR including shipping, for 10 boards
50mm*50mm (double-sided solder mask and silkscreen included!). They don't do less than 10, but even if you only need one, it's a lot cheaper than european-based prototype PCB manufacturers.Same for
I have used both and got good-quality PCBs each time.
Shipping will usually take around 3-4 weeks unless you pay extra for express delivery.
cu Michael
Until megacorps out-compete all the mom and pop businesses ...
That's a pretty good deal. I expect they are doing a similar thing where they batch up a number of customers onto a single panel producing
10 panels. Funny that the price increases so dramatically with colors.The 4 layer boards are not as good a deal. Given that you only want a small number of boards $65 is about 40% higher than oshpark, but if you can use more than 3 boards - again a good deal.
One thing to note, oshpark gives you ENIG standard. I expect hobby projects won't care, but it makes a difference in surface mount. ITEAD upcharges for ENIG. Also, there have been some issues with the ITEAD software reading valid Gerber files. The reports I have read say that ITEAD will remake the boards, but it would be good if they could fix their software to properly image valid Gerber files.
I notice DirtyPCBs is honest about the shipping quoting 1 to 8+ weeks for the inexpensive shipping. I have used that with eBay orders and sometimes stuff arrives and sometimes it doesn't. Paying for shipping that actually reaches its destination in a reasonable time more than doubles the price! :(
For a Scot I would think a better analogy would be calling a Canadian a Yank :-)
Alan
Or a Kiwi an Aussie ...
Gordon (A Scot living in England)
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