Finding a PCB Manufacturer?

[westfw]

Postings in assorted forums...
For us hobbyists and relatively small volume manufacturers the choices are narrowed considerably, but with our relatively modest board designs (no 20+ layer boards, eh?) it's still a moderately broad spectrum...

[rizla420]

I've used GoldPheonix a bunch of times and have had a a really good experience. You're looking at about 120 bucks or so for as many of your pcb's that can fit into their panel. YOu can get quite a bit of pcb's if you have a small footprint. Yes,they're a chinese company, but they're responsive and they accept paypal so you dont have to give your credit card account to them directly.
http://www.goldphoenixpcb.biz/

[jftheoret]

I've heard of BatchPCB for small volumes, but never used them:

http://www.batchpcb.com/

I've also heard of: Advanced Circuits, PCB123, Gold Phoenix, Bare Bones PCB

[bob332]

dorkbotpdx.org - enough said - http://www.dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/pcb_order

traces down to 6mil, excellent quality boards, excellent customer serviceb. i have had probably 50-75 boards done by them for prototyping and they just work - no quality issues whatsoever. i have so far gone down to 0402 and 4x4x.09mm 24pin QFN and 3x3x.9mm 12pin LGA packages with no issues. haven't gone 0201....yet

if you are doing through hole boards it may get a bit expensive but they are US based and you get 3 boards which is excellent for prototype. i would have no issue using these boards in a production environment, they are just quality.

if you use eagle, you can just submit brd files and not have to worry about creating the gerbers which is nice if you are just getting into the board creation.

size comparison w/ a 6dof board w/ itg3200 and bma180 next to a micro sd card and as you can see, the board was not pushed hard for size as it did not need to be the smallest possible board:


i fly multirotors and these boards works excellent

hope this helps. they do a panel or ? every week

also, i am by no means associated w/ dorkbotpdx.org other than an extremely happy user of their boards. have 3 or 4 designs coming this i think

[moreplease]

I just received my prototype PCB made by diygadget'. All good, received the boards in 9 days (including weekends). 10 PCS of 10cm x 10cm boards for $60 shipped.

http://www.diygadget.com/10-pcs-single- ... -10cm.html