Hello Folks,
I'm considering getting a small pick and place machine, and starting a small sideline with the brother in law to assemble PCB's.
The kind of stuff i'm thinking of is putting down all the SMD Caps and resistors (the annoying things) but leaving the expensive IC's etc for you to put in yourselves when your ready.
Here's an open question to both end builders, and to fellow whitemarketeers who sell PCB's.
- Is there any value to end users in having the commodity side of their PCB's pre-assembled?
- Does saving you an hours soldering of the boring stuff have any value for you? (Maybe even reducing the risk of it working or not?)
I'll qualify this by saying that I understand that most boards are all through hole today on this forum, and I don't expect the world to change to SMD for their most critical signal chain. However, there is a lot of circuitry we use today where passives etc aren't in the critical signal chain (e.g. decoupling logic, microprocessors, or even some opamps).
Any thoughts?
cheers
/R
(edited: fixed some of the spelling errors, probably more around now! )
I'm considering getting a small pick and place machine, and starting a small sideline with the brother in law to assemble PCB's.
The kind of stuff i'm thinking of is putting down all the SMD Caps and resistors (the annoying things) but leaving the expensive IC's etc for you to put in yourselves when your ready.
Here's an open question to both end builders, and to fellow whitemarketeers who sell PCB's.
- Is there any value to end users in having the commodity side of their PCB's pre-assembled?
- Does saving you an hours soldering of the boring stuff have any value for you? (Maybe even reducing the risk of it working or not?)
I'll qualify this by saying that I understand that most boards are all through hole today on this forum, and I don't expect the world to change to SMD for their most critical signal chain. However, there is a lot of circuitry we use today where passives etc aren't in the critical signal chain (e.g. decoupling logic, microprocessors, or even some opamps).
Any thoughts?
cheers
/R
(edited: fixed some of the spelling errors, probably more around now! )