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Boards came in today, 13 days from sending in the gerbers to in my 
hands.  Fairly impressed with TNT, never heard of them before but 
apparently a fairly big company along the lines of FedEx etc.  China to 
my hands in 4 days as below..

  They're quite nice too, a little lower tolerances etc than the APC 
boards I've had, but quite good and definitely a bargain.  Sent the 
manufacturing overage along with it, 29 was the number and got 32, 
although you couldn't count on that 100% or with large boards.  Quite a 
deal at ~$2.60 per board after the Paypal 10% off coupon, relatively 
complex little board so way worth not making them for $3 each..  I think 
it's time for some motor controllers..

Alan



*714326620  Details*
Reference 	* *
Pick up date 	*15 Dec 2005 *
Destination 	*Cary *
Delivery Date 	*13:20, 19 Dec 2005 *
Signatory 	*Ld Lof -101marshfiel *

Date 	Time 	Location 	Status
19 Dec 2005  	13:20  	Usa Others  	Delivered 
17 Dec 2005  	15:05  	Los Angeles  	Consignment Received At Transit Point 
17 Dec 2005  	14:32  	Los Angeles  	Import Received 
16 Dec 2005  	00:36  	Wuhan  	Shipped From Originating Depot 
15 Dec 2005  	21:51  	Wuhan  	Consignment Received At Transit Point 

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What kind of motor controller are you making?



--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alan King <alan@n...> wrote:
>
>   Boards came in today, 13 days from sending in the gerbers to in 
my 
> hands.  Fairly impressed with TNT, never heard of them before but 
> apparently a fairly big company along the lines of FedEx etc.  
China to 
> my hands in 4 days as below..
> 
>   They're quite nice too, a little lower tolerances etc than the 
APC 
> boards I've had, but quite good and definitely a bargain.  Sent 
the 
> manufacturing overage along with it, 29 was the number and got 32, 
> although you couldn't count on that 100% or with large boards.  
Quite a 
> deal at ~$2.60 per board after the Paypal 10% off coupon, 
relatively 
> complex little board so way worth not making them for $3 each..  I 
think 
> it's time for some motor controllers..
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> *714326620  Details*
> Reference 	* *
> Pick up date 	*15 Dec 2005 *
> Destination 	*Cary *
> Delivery Date 	*13:20, 19 Dec 2005 *
> Signatory 	*Ld Lof -101marshfiel *
> 
> Date 	Time 	Location 	Status
> 19 Dec 2005  	13:20  	Usa Others  	Delivered 
> 17 Dec 2005  	15:05  	Los Angeles  	Consignment Received At 
Transit Point 
> 17 Dec 2005  	14:32  	Los Angeles  	Import Received 
> 16 Dec 2005  	00:36  	Wuhan  	Shipped From Originating Depot 
> 15 Dec 2005  	21:51  	Wuhan  	Consignment Received At Transit 
Point 
> 
>  Summary <#top>  /  input screen 
> </webtracker/tracker.do?
searchType=CON&respLang=en&respCountry=US&sourceID=1&sourceCountry=ww
&genericSiteIdent=&navigation=1&plazakey=>
>

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alan King <alan@n...> wrote:
>
>   Boards came in today, 13 days from sending in the gerbers to in my 
> hands.  Fairly impressed with TNT, never heard of them before but 
> apparently a fairly big company along the lines of FedEx etc.  China to 
> my hands in 4 days as below..

Do you happen to have a link to this company?

Thanks
Bill

wpafan wrote:

>--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alan King <alan@n...> wrote:
>  
>
>>  Boards came in today, 13 days from sending in the gerbers to in my 
>>hands.  Fairly impressed with TNT, never heard of them before but 
>>apparently a fairly big company along the lines of FedEx etc.  China to 
>>my hands in 4 days as below..
>>    
>>
>
>Do you happen to have a link to this company?
>
>Thanks
>Bill
>
>
>  
>

http://www.tnt.com/

There's TNT, and just in case you happened to want the PCB too, here is 
one of their Ebay auctions..  Apparently TNT is rather large in Asia 
area like FedEx..  Kind of struck me as about an Airborne size operation 
in the US end, of course likely to change or really be larger, just 
showed up in similar van etc..

Ah LOL just looked, and while bright orange TNT bag, of course it also 
has an Airborne label now that I look, so just an in US partnership for 
global delivery.  Still, worked quite well in getting it here..

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hot-Deals-for-2-layers-PCB-1_W0QQitemZ7573971441QQcategoryZ50915QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZtigeryeshQQhtZ-1

sorry i wasnt clear at all, i meant where you had your boards made :)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: wpafan 
  To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:30 PM
  Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCBs


  --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alan King <alan@n...> wrote:
  >
  >   Boards came in today, 13 days from sending in the gerbers to in my 
  > hands.  Fairly impressed with TNT, never heard of them before but 
  > apparently a fairly big company along the lines of FedEx etc.  China to 
  > my hands in 4 days as below..

  Do you happen to have a link to this company?

  Thanks
  Bill








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bill afanaseff wrote:

>sorry i wasnt clear at all, i meant where you had your boards made :)
>
>
>  
>
  No problem, figured it might be just the quoting..

http://www.modellights.com/images/temp/pcb1.jpg
http://www.modellights.com/images/temp/pcb2.jpg
http://www.modellights.com/images/temp/pcb3.jpg

  A few pics to see what the $90 can get.  2.6" square, so 32 makes for 
~216 sq inches total, a bit more than the 200 from the ad, of course 
can't count on the extras..  Pic 3 shows one small error, the center 
trace comes out at 90, should have come out at 45.  Not a problem, but 
unnecessarily close to the hole beside..  Slight misalignment in the 
hole rows on the right in that pic is intentional, to move off a bit for 
clearance.  Been dealing with a water leak, so haven't even built one up 
yet, but it's a shrink of a known good larger version, so should be no 
real problems.  Could have made some clearances a little larger, but not 
much else, and had several 'last 2 days' additions, so not too bad.  
Making notes for the next round of boards..

  Tight two layer, would've been a royal pita to try to make 32 of these 
by TT or similar at once.  May get two boards next order, doubling up on 
the shipping would make it an even better bargain.

Alan

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Alan King" <alan@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCBs


> wpafan wrote:
> 
>>--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alan King <alan@n...> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>  Boards came in today, 13 days from sending in the gerbers to in my 
>>>hands.  Fairly impressed with TNT, never heard of them before but 
>>>apparently a fairly big company along the lines of FedEx etc.  China to 
>>>my hands in 4 days as below..
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Do you happen to have a link to this company?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> http://www.tnt.com/
> 
> There's TNT, and just in case you happened to want the PCB too, here is 
> one of their Ebay auctions..  Apparently TNT is rather large in Asia 
> area like FedEx..  Kind of struck me as about an Airborne size operation 
> in the US end, of course likely to change or really be larger, just 
> showed up in similar van etc..
> 
> Ah LOL just looked, and while bright orange TNT bag, of course it also 
> has an Airborne label now that I look, so just an in US partnership for 
> global delivery.  Still, worked quite well in getting it here..

TNT is a big company. It's Australian (or was) , and quite big in the UK.

Leon
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In article <43A772FB.3070504@...>,
   Alan King <alan@...> wrote:
> Fairly impressed with TNT, never heard of them before

Large Austrailian based company - they are a major carrier in the uk.