[GreenKeys] Who's still looking at getting John Nagle's USB<->CL Board made ?

Mon Mar 5 14:56:19 EST 2018

"Nothing to taking his CAD, changing the parts to thru hole and laying out
a new board."

May be a nothing for yourself, but it's beyond my current skillset.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com>
wrote:

> > Can you work with SMD parts?
>
> If I had done it, I would have used SMD. I've done something iike 30 to 40
> designs for customers, I do the prototypes then my runs have been from 20
> to 200ish. I contract that outl
>
> My last little board I had the house do the resistors and caps, but you
> had to use there list of about 200-300 parts. You need a 500 ohm resistor
> that's 2 x 1K.
>
> Nothing wrong with the perf board, you can get some very nice FR4 boards
> for less than a $1 each.
>
> I guess the deal is John built the board for himself but made the design
> open.
>
> Nothing to taking his CAD, changing the parts to thru hole and laying out
> a new board.
>
> -pete
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:06 AM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Now beggars can't be choosers and all that, but I don't get why John
>> elects to design these circuits with SMD parts, knowing that the primary
>> user base will be a group of DIYer's.
>>
>> Can you work with SMD parts? I can't. I mean to say, I might be capable
>> to some degree, but sheesh - why?! Are the required parts simply not
>> available in legacy form-factors or something?
>>
>> Normally I'd be all over this, but the SMD requirement just takes all the
>> wind from my sails. So what's the deal? For the record, I built one of his
>> earlier designs (RS-232 -to- 120V / 60mA) on perfboard with some parts
>> chassis mounted, and that all went just fine.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have not heard a est number
>>>
>>> I can envision
>>>
>>> - Raw board + digikey/mouser/etc list
>>>
>>> - Raw board + parts or + list
>>>
>>> - Board with SMT Parts + list of non SMT parts
>>>
>>> - Fully assembled board
>>>
>>> -pete
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 5:15 AM, Steve Garrison <steve.n4tty at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is everyone aware of the cost involved for these in finished form?
>>>>
>>>> Steve G./N4TTY
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 4, 2018, at 8:41 PM, Bruce Phillips <bruce at ecsindustries.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HI All,
>>>>
>>>> As I said last week....I am in the process of having 30 PCB's made, and
>>>> assembling them as required.......I have not provided any updates, as there
>>>> is nothing to update yet.....until I get the boards there is very little I
>>>> can do!!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Bruce Phillips
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/03/2018 9:59 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The reason I ask is I'm up to 3 maybe even 5.
>>>>
>>>> As far as SMT i really suggest having someone like SEEED do the PCB and
>>>> the SMT parts.
>>>>
>>>> -pete
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm still interested, depending on the price (and shipping to VK).
>>>>> I'm on a limited income, and also can't do SMD...
>>>>>
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