On Mar 23, 2011, at 5:06 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> If you're really a hobbyist and claiming your time is worth little,
> then why is fast turnaround so important?

Speaking from my own motivations for the LPKF, one of the issues is =20
that as a hobbyist I didn't have a lot of confidence in my ability to =20
design a board that would work.  So it wasn't so much a matter of =20
sending off $50 for more boards than I could use, it was also the =20
conviction that those boards wouldn't work, and so I'd have to do it =20
again!  Probably several times.

And then there's the "urge to tweak."  Having immediate turnaround =20
lets you fiddle with a board design until it's not just working, but =20
"perfect."

BillW

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