From: Ryan O'Connor <rocifier@gmail.com>
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Hi Dwayne, it's for a friend of mine and it's not worth them paying me to
do it. Ideally we would just do most of it SMT and he can manually solder
the through hole if he has to.

On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 10:50, Dwayne Reid <dwayner@planet.eon.net> wrote:

> Hi there, Ryan.
>
> Can you source the chip yourself? And - are you comfortable
> installing it on the board yourself?
>
> If so, simply have JLCPCB do all the work except for installing the
> chip.  Might be the fastest way for you to get your boards.
>
> dwayne
>
>
> At 07:12 AM 9/13/2021, Ryan O'Connor wrote:
> >Where are people getting their PCBs assembled? I'm doing some runs of
> >approximately 50 boards and tried JLCPCB. By the time I finished matchin=
g
> >the parts to their stock, one of the atmega644p that the design uses
> >switched to "inventory low" and I couldn't complete the order. The staff
> >told me I had to pre-order the part, but when I checked it only comes in=
 a
> >reel of 2000 MOQ. Kinda feeling a bit stuck. They have non-reel ICs in
> >stock but they are about $2 more per chip. With 50 boards that's an
> >increase of $100! And the microprocessors are already costing an arm and=
 a
> >leg. The rest of the components are mostly passive or fairly trivial
> >semiconductors, but we do have some through-hole connectors, headers, an=
d
> a
> >buzzer.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Ryan
>
>
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