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I have had good results with PCBWAY another low cost company in China.=20
They will source the parts in China. Their prices for parts have always=20
been surprisingly low. Worth taking a look at if you haven't already.

Jim

On 2021-09-13 7:08 p.m., Ryan O'Connor wrote:
> 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 matchi=
ng
>>> 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 staf=
f
>>> told me I had to pre-order the part, but when I checked it only comes i=
n 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 an=
d a
>>> leg. The rest of the components are mostly passive or fairly trivial
>>> semiconductors, but we do have some through-hole connectors, headers, a=
nd
>> a
>>> buzzer.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ryan
>>
>> --
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>> Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd    Edmonton, AB, CANADA
>> 780-489-3199 voice   780-487-6397 fax   888-489-3199 Toll Free
>> www.trinity-electronics.com
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