{"id":2277,"date":"2015-11-17T21:43:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2015-11-17T21:43:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:43:46","slug":"pcbway-com-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/blog\/pcbway-com-review\/","title":{"rendered":"pcbway.com Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: <\/em><\/span><\/strong>PCBway has a policy of paying people for reviews with discounts off future work.<\/em><\/span> I have not accepted, nor will I accept, any such compensation for a review.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I ordered quantity 5 of my board for the solar bike<\/a> controller. \u00a0Specs for the board were as follows:<\/p>\n

\"board<\/a>
The board was roughly 8 inches by 9 inches, and had 248 holes. I used a 10-mil minimum feature size, and 7 mil lines for silkscreen text. In other words, this was not a challenging board to manufacture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"top<\/a>
Top view of board. The solder mask is a little uneven around the text near the top of the board, but alignment is good. Any fuzziness in the picture is due to my taking the picture with a handheld camera. Click on the picture to zoom to maximum detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"bottom<\/a>
Bottom view of board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"traces<\/a>
The most challenging part of this layout was when a couple traces ran between the DIP pins, with 10 mil clearance. These came out fine. Note that pcbway added its own job number to the board, W10305AS2. They were nice enough to put it in an obscure location, under a DIP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"silkscreen<\/a>
The silkscreen for R55 and R56 was clipped where it overlapped pads, as it should be. Note that R25 is not clipped – that’s what the silkscreen is supposed to look like. The 1206 land patterns without reference designators are spares.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"bottom<\/a>
The silkscreen on the bottom was poorly aligned, but functional. If I had used finer geometry, this might have been a problem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is the timeline for the order. \u00a0Dates have been adjusted, since China is one day ahead of me:<\/p>\n