(I am exploring the costs and feasibility of a massively parallel hobbyist design project using a huge number of PICs on separate boards. I'll go into more detail later. For now I'm just trying to break this up into smaller questions.)
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Is there a printed circuit board fabrication manufacturing cost difference, between using all-SMT vs through-hole components, for simple board designs?
It seems that if you could make a simple single-layer PCB with no through-hole components, you could possibly save money due for no need for hole drilling or through-hole plating.
Or do board fabricators generally consider the cost of hole drilling and plating to be unimportant, and this is not usually factored into their board fab pricing?
I recognize that mechanical strength of the connections is reduced by not using through-hole mounting.
- Dale Mahalko
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Is there a printed circuit board fabrication manufacturing cost difference, between using all-SMT vs through-hole components, for simple board designs?
It seems that if you could make a simple single-layer PCB with no through-hole components, you could possibly save money due for no need for hole drilling or through-hole plating.
Or do board fabricators generally consider the cost of hole drilling and plating to be unimportant, and this is not usually factored into their board fab pricing?
I recognize that mechanical strength of the connections is reduced by not using through-hole mounting.
- Dale Mahalko