I've been going back and forth with advanced, but they're up to ~$1500=20
for just 1 piece of this board, so not looking too good right now.
A major part of that though is the PCB fab, which they say will require=20
a minimum of 6 pieces, even if they only assemble one for me.

Mark Rages pointed me to Tempo who quoted >$2100.

I'm really looking into attempting this myself at this point.  I can get=20
5 boards (though I only need one) and a stencil for <$300. Even if I=20
need to pick up a board heater etc, it will still be less, and we'll=20
have a few other prototypes to do later anyway.

Cheers,
-Neil


On 2/9/2017 12:30 AM, Darron Black wrote:
> Advanced Assembly in Colorado is pretty good at that.  They have some
> kind of different process.  My guess is it involves cutting and
> populating custom JEDEC trays with your components, and running that
> (Based on a "tray cut" process status that seems to take some time).
> They continually told me they really don't give the slightest care if
> the parts are on reels or not.  Their prices flatten off very quickly
> though... 15-25 is about the most you want to give them.  Their prices
> were also good.
>
>
> Darron
>
>
> On 2/8/2017 4:06 PM, Neil wrote:
>> What do you guys (in the U.S.) do about one-off prototypes which you
>> can't make in-house?  To date I've made all my own prototypes manually,
>> but I've now got a board with BGA's and other very small components on
>> them, which I can't reliably and really would not prefer to attempt to
>> make here.  Especially because I have limited sample parts on hand, and
>> beyond that would have to be a large-volume order.  I was assuming it's
>> just a matter of having a CEM do it, but so far I'm running into issues
>> where they're all saying they really do one-offs, and if so, they'd make
>> a handful and I can use just one, but they'd have to charge me for all
>> that the make.  Is this common?  Or have I just not found the right CEM
>> yet? Or do all of you have in-house capability to assemble yourself?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Neil.
>>

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