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Rob Judd

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi,

I've noticed recently that Futurlec have been mentioned in here as a
place to get cheap PCBs made in small quantity. I already had an order
in with them when these messages came up so didn't comment. What follows
is a summary of my experience with them so far.

- Email is apparently answered in batches daily, so it's slow to deal
with them.
- The site futurlec.com.au seems to indicate an Australian company.
Wrong. All prices are in US dollars, and the sales person is in the USA.
- Boards are delivered directly from Thailand by mail.
- Prices and conditions vary on the salesperson's whim. I was quoted
(and paid) USD106.00 for a job that was US96.00 using their online
quotation calculator.
- The boards arrived with groundplanes totally missing on top and bottom
apart from a 10mil border track, and there was definite evidence that
the layout had been re-routed prior to their having being made. Such
things as copper artifacts left where they had been meticulously removed
as an example.

I'm left with a set of boards that are useless and my project has thus
been set back three weeks, and await their reply to my complaint. I'm
not saying don't use them, but if their service doesn't improve then I
sure won't.

Rob
 
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Steve

Jan 1, 1970
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budgie said:
"Value for money for hobbyists and small operators? IMOE their protos
certainly are."

I actually forwarded one small board ex the latest batch to Steven
Murray at Airborn Electronics so he could see first hand what their
protos were like. If he chooses, he may comment here.

Their non-proto product pricing is certainly nothing out of the
ordinary.

That board was really good quality work.

Single sided, granted, but well produced.
Down here in Sydney I used to be the agent
for a (now well known, esp for Prototype)
Australian PCB manufacturer. Frankly,
single sided work from this PCB manufacturer is
often not very good (sometimes seems overetched).

That Futurlec board was spot on, IMHO.
 
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Rob Judd

Jan 1, 1970
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Budgie,

Just a short reply. No, I wasn't having a shot at any previous post,
just relaying my experiences. The manufacturing quality (apart from
noted problems) was very good, no copmplaints there at all.

Alan Bonnard's emails arrive with a GMT -5000 postmark, are you sure
he's in Sydney?

Rob
 
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Rob Judd

Jan 1, 1970
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Budgie,

Just a short reply. No, I wasn't having a shot at any previous post,
just relaying my experiences. The manufacturing quality (apart from
noted problems) was very good, no complaints there at all.

The only place on the website that mentione USD is the postage page.
Alan Bonnard's emails arrive with a GMT -5000 postmark, are you sure
he's in Sydney?

Rob
 
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