Gerald, I am just curious. Hypothetically speaking, what would it take to retool to make a custom board ? I am not looking for an "IN" or anything I am just curious. I'm thinking it would be a huge hassle to say the least.
I've never worked in a PCB fab before, but worked for a CNC shop many moons ago, and retooling for even the most basic part ( door lock keyways ), would take a full day or two just for the setup, and a week or slightly longer to shake out the bugs. Meanwhile, the company is "losing" money until things are running smoothly again. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>wrote: > 100 boards is not a lot of boards. Especially when you > have distributors screaming for 50,000 boards to fill their large POs.. > > Gerald > > > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, sixvolts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are plenty of things that get built and sold in those kinds of >> numbers, like specialized instruments. >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:33:49 PM UTC-5, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 28 May 2014, sixvolts wrote: >>> >>> > I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a >>> > run of the beaglebone black boards for a commercial project, but I >>> > can't seem to get anyone to respond to emails and the two people I >>> > have phone numbers for are always busy. My understanding was that >>> > proper etiquette was to not poach boards from the distributors if >>> > you build a device around the beaglebone and have them produced for >>> > you. I even spoke to someone at a CircuitCo booth at a conference >>> > last year (DesignWest - where the beaglebone black was "launched") >>> > and they indicated this was common already for the original >>> > beagleboards/bones. >>> > >>> > I can't get anyone local interested in building them because of some >>> > of the minimum order quantities on some of the parts (like the >>> > emmc). >>> > >>> > Anyone at CircuitCo around? I have money and need around 100 boards >>> > made. >>> >>> not many manufacturers would consider 100 units much of a "run". >>> that's not the sort of number that's going to get you much attention. >>> just an observation. >>> >>> rday >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ======================================================================== >>> >>> Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA >>> http://crashcourse.ca >>> >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >>> LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >>> ======================================================================== >>> >>> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
