Nils Faerber wrote: > I also know from experience that some parts are really nasty to get - > either you do not get them at all or you have to buy large quantaties of > them.
Oh yes. You wouldn't believe just how often we had that sort of thing happen to Openmoko. I've learned to treat sourcing with a healthy dose of paranoia. > I know at least three such companies, one beeing in my home town. For > such a large number of different components 10-20 units will be > *extremely* expensive. Seems to be about EUR 200-300 for 10 units. With the PCBs costing around EUR 200 apiece, that would be around EUR 500 for the production. Okay, that's about what I would have guessed. Limited editions are always a bit pricy :-) > Those are of course just very rough numbers. It also depends on type of > parts, how many of which type, etc. But as a first rough figure it could do. Sure. Thanks a lot for the estimate ! > 0402 is OK - we can do this in our work-shop, but that's smallest we can > do ;) Density is indeed another critical issue. And pitily we cannot do > any BGA at all. What we have is the "Expert" from Essemtec: Very nice equipment :-) - Werner _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community