To stray a bit away from topic, but I have been asked to supply a list
of potential US based assembly houses.  I turn over the list and my
client makes the contacts.  I have a couple of names but my client wants
7 or 8 recommendations.  Seems a bit high to me but they are nervous
about short-term scheduling of production runs.  Preference would be for
assembly houses in the mid-west so that site visits are more convenient.

The design calls for a double sided board, SMT on the top, and 7 or 8
PTH parts on the bottom (transformer, couple of sockets, etc). Board is
2.50" x 5.75", 2oz copper (more likely 1oz plated to 2oz).  Soldermask
but probably no legend. 

The smallest SMT parts are SOT-23.  Resistors and non-polarized caps are
1206, polarized tantalums are "B" size, a couple of 74' logic ics in
50mil pitch SOIC-16, some D2PAKs and a few other odds and ends.  In
short, no 0.5mm pitch stuff!

The production runs would be on the order of 100 to 500 pieces initially
with future ramp-up to 3,000/year.

Lead-free (ROHS) will be an issue mostly for component availability, not
because of export.

I have much more detail available for private emails.

Rob
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