Small volume PCB manufacture

[s2driveruk]

any hints on what you're cooking up there Paul...?

[S2central.net]

Nothing too exciting - just a handy lil board to carry the Motorola 3bar MAP sensors inside the ECU - they are desperately fiddly to wire up raw and vibration can cause flaky connections. It should be a much cheaper alternative to the VMAP-D for straightforward 3bar applications as the actual device is in 10-15 quid price range in small quantities.

[s2driveruk]

good stuff....any news on the 3b ecu btw....happy to slot it in before i head off if there is a new brew?

[GazzaG60]

paul.

drop me a pm of what you are after if you are struggling.

i have 2 options. one here in house. we are small domestic appliance company. other i have a mate who owns an electronics company that makes alarm systems etc. he has a team of pcb people.

[Evilgoat76]

Paul

Use Eagle, email it over to me, I have everything setup here to do Gerber plotting and then I'll fire it over to the house I use for a quote. Might even be able to add it on to the bridge boards for autocheck and do it all as one batch.

Alternatively look at ExpressPCB

[Evilgoat76]

Also if its a standard pin out, Rapid and RS, probobly Farnell too, all do SMT to DIP adaptors.

[S2central.net]

Mr Goat - you are a star... I have just done the gerber files in Eagle. It is a trivially simple little circuit and very small at 1.1inches by 0.6inch so I must be able to squeeze a lot of those onto a small copper board that can yield a good dozen or more. Pls send me a PM with your email address so I can post the files to you.... Would be great if you can check for any silly mistakes. The automated checks in Eagle say all is well, but I am a bit of a virgin with this.

[Evilgoat76]

PMed, or will do in a sec.

My Supplier does something called 'PCB snap' which means they will integrate a load of small boards into one and amortise the costs for you. If not then I'll see about going on the dash bridges as said or one of the other boards I do.

Ric

[diesel des]

Paul the company I used to work for in ballycarry does this sort of thing. We have a PCB milling machine etc. Text for contact details.

[S2central.net]

Gawd such high technology so close to me - I had no idea
Mr Goat is right on the case with an established contact so I'll see where that leads. Will keep the locals in mind though. Cheers

[curlyks2]

free software can export files in a format that I can use elsewhere as their minimum price is rather expensive for my needs with a very small, single layer PCB

I used PCB Train (Newbury Electronics) for a recent small (-ish: c. 100mm x 100mm) PCB, which I designed using Kicad - free layout software which exports to Gerber files and drill files etc. It all worked out very well, and the PCB works fine.