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Where are you getting PCBs assembled in the USA at small volume?
by avsteele 1y ago
Where are you getting PCBs assembled in the USA at small volume?
- generj 1y agoAdafruit does their own assembly (pick and place / reflow) but not sure what PCB providers they have. There are US based PCB fabs. Cyber City Circuits does small scale assembly in the US and seem like a cool company (ran into them from the Datasheet Digest podcast they put out). But yeah obviously they aren’t going to be able to match a $35 PCBA JLCPCB prototyping order. https://cybercitycircuits.com/ https://cybercitycircuits.com/
- Workaccount2 1y agoI can tell you from first hand day job experience: Electronic manufacturing in the US definitely exists. It also is low quality and 5x to 10x the cost of China. An assembled board that costed us $825/unit in the US (and frequently had errors) costs $130/unit from China and they nailed it every time (probably because they machine QC rather than human QC). It's really not even close. Same goes for machined parts - drastically cheaper and higher quality from China.
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- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoI do mine in Detroit. There are five shops I can think of offhand. I was in Montana once and stopped in to see a small PCB line. They were doing F22 and F35 PCBs. Small USA PCB is everywhere.
- avsteele 1y agoName one
- fzeroracer 1y agoName them and share the prices with us.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoAdco, Devron, Riverside, Altera, RBB, VAST, EMSG… And that’s the ones I can think of within a couple hours of each other.