Printed circuit board fabrication

"TonyL"

"Tony Lacy Cock Sucker "

You people have given me great advice before (grovel, grovel) so here I am
asking for some more.


** Get this OT ****e of the NG

- you PITA pommy ****head !!

"Tony Lacy Cock Sucker "

You people have given me great advice before (grovel, grovel) so here I am
asking for some more.


** Get this OT ****e of the NG

- you PITA pommy ****head !!

Hi Tony

there is quite a good article here about making the parts for short
production runs of PCBs

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/pcbs.html

You can also get the required parts and chemicals from he

http://www.megauk.com/

With regards to the software, there are several low-cost packages you can
buy. If you are local to Maplins (I assume that you are in the UK and not
in the colonies as one of this newsgroup's contributors is) there is a neat
little software package called PCB Wizard which costs around £30 or so and
does most functions and has some libraries, auto routing etc.

So it might cost you about £100 of so to set it up, assuming that you have a
good quality printer, but its also good fun and you will never use Veroboard
again :-)

Cheers

Mike


"TonyL" wrote in message
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You people have given me great advice before (grovel, grovel) so here I am
asking for some more.

I've made PCBs before but always as one-off projects using transfers and
etch resist pens. But I need to produce 50-60 now !

My requirements are very modest...single sided, a couple of 14 pin DILs
and a few other components, size around 50mm x 100mm.

Does anybody know of a reasonably priced outfit who can supply small PCBs
? Artwork would be supplied by me. In what form is this normally required
?

Or should I go ahead get a photoresist kit and supplies ? I'm starting
from scratch here with a few working prototypes on veroboard.

Thanks all.

fredbloggstwo wrote:
Hi Tony

there is quite a good article here about making the parts for short
production runs of PCBs

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/pcbs.html

You can also get the required parts and chemicals from he

http://www.megauk.com/

With regards to the software, there are several low-cost packages you
can buy. If you are local to Maplins (I assume that you are in the
UK and not in the colonies as one of this newsgroup's contributors
is) there is a neat little software package called PCB Wizard which
costs around £30 or so and does most functions and has some
libraries, auto routing etc.
So it might cost you about £100 of so to set it up, assuming that you
have a good quality printer, but its also good fun and you will never
use Veroboard again :-)

Cheers

Mike

Thanks Mike,

Closest Maplins is in Shrewsbury, about an hour away, but Maplins online
delivery service is pretty good.

I've been looking at the open source package http://www.freepcb.com/ but it
seems too advanced for my needs. It would take me longer to enter a netlist
and learn how to use this app than simply drawing a layout in a paint
program. Maybe PCB Wizard is more user friendly. Just drag/drop from a
component pallet then drag tracks around to connect stuff. That would be
plenty for me.

Thanks for the links, great article !

In article ,
TonyL wrote:
I've been looking at the open source package http://www.freepcb.com/ but
it seems too advanced for my needs. It would take me longer to enter a
netlist and learn how to use this app than simply drawing a layout in a
paint program. Maybe PCB Wizard is more user friendly. Just drag/drop
from a component pallet then drag tracks around to connect stuff. That
would be plenty for me.

It's one reason I still use RISC OS. The Draw prog on that with a small
library of basic pad layouts is all that's needed for simple stuff. Same
for drawing circuit diagrams. But then I quite enjoy figuring out layouts
and best track routes. IMHO it takes too long to learn a CAD one to be
worth it unless you're using it frequently.

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