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Hi Robert,

My first choice would be form the PCB board assembly house to provide
the parts (turn-key) but if it's going to cost an arm and a leg then I
can provide the parts.  Can you tell us the company that was able to
assemble the boards inexpensively?

Thanks,

Richard Cooke
Lake Forest, CA USA

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Robert Adsett <subscriptions@...> wrote:
>
> Sending again.  I think I'm getting filtered out.  For some reason my 
> latest posts haven't been making it through.
> 
> At 12:27 AM 3/8/2008 +0000, Richard Cooke wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >Is there a rule of thumb for estimating the cost of getting circuit
> >boards assembled?  I have a board that is about 1" x 1" with 25
> >surface mount parts - most of these are standard 0603 resistors and
> >caps.  Does anybody know what a per part cost I might be able to use
> >for estimating the cost if I'm going to get 500 to 1000 of these made?
> >Any guesses?
> >
> >I got one official quote for $19.50 each which almost made me fall off
> >my chair.  The 500 piece cost for the electonic parts from Digi-key is
> >about $4.20 so asking for $15.30/ea $500 qty) to put the parts on the
> >boards seems excessive.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Who's suppling the parts? You or them?
>     If it's them, do they dedicate parts to each customer?  How good
are 
> your part specs?  Do they suggest substitutions of parts they order in 
> quantity.
>          If they do or if you have parts that aren't common then you
may 
> end up buying full reels even if you only use a few parts.
> 
> Is the tooling and setup broken out separately.
> 
> For turnkey setups (they supply parts) I've had cost quoted that had
the 
> stuffing cost + more than I would pay for the parts. The reasoning
given is 
> that they are providing inventory management and sourceing
functions.  I've 
> also had quotes for a completed stuffed board for less than what it
would 
> cost me to get in the parts.
> 
> Robert
> 
> >
> 
> 
>  From the Divided by a Common Language File (Edited to protect the
guilty)
> ME - "I'd like to get Price and delivery for connector Part # XXXXX"
> Dist./Rep - "$X.XX Lead time 37 days"
> ME - "Anything we can do about lead time?  37 days seems a bit high."
> Dist./Rep - "that is the lead time given because our stock is
live.... we 
> currently have stock."
>