Oh wow, a simple search on tab routing brought me to two more good turnkey PCB manufacturers. Basically, it is the “mouse ears” and “mouse bites” panelization technique.
Bittele Electronics Inc (7pcb) is located in Toronto, Canada. Screaming Circuits apperas to be located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
20200724/DuckDuckGo tab routing
20200724/https://www.7pcb.com/blog/tab-routing.php
20200724/https://www.7pcb.com/about-bittele.php
20200724/https://blog.screamingcircuits.com/2014/06/tab-routing-panelization.html
20200724/https://www.screamingcircuits.com/
20200724/https://www.screamingcircuits.com/about
20200724/https://www.screamingcircuits.com/about/history
Looking at Digi-Key’s list of PCB printers, and of those that offer PCBs in quantity of one, I discovered another U.S.-based PCB assembler, Advanced Circuits (4PCB), based in Colorado, USA.
20200724/https://www.4pcb.com/
20200724/https://www.4pcb.com/Assembly-Services.html
Sierra Circuits (California, USA) also does turn-key:
20200724/https://www.protoexpress.com/
Precision Circuit Board Source, LLC (low quantity runs from California, USA; high quantity runs from Asia-based manufacturing facility):
20200724/https://precisionpcbs.com/
Actually, only two PCB board houses listed on Digi-Key are circuit board printers only:
- Royal Circuit Solutions Inc (California, USA)
- Sunshine Global Circuits (Shenzen, China)
So, let’s roll together all of the prospective PCB assemblers and catalog the location and minimum order quantities of them all.
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JLC PCB (Hong Kong), min. qty. 5
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Seeed Fusion (Shenzen, China), min. qty. 5, lower quantity possible on bigger boards
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NextPCB (Shenzen, China), min. qty. 5, lower quantity possible on bigger boards
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Bittele Electronics Inc (Toronto, Canada), min. qty. 1
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Screaming Circuits (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA), min. qty. 1
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Advanced Circuits (Colorado, USA), min. qty. 1*: Minimum quantity of one is possible if you choose “labor only” which means that you will do all the part sourcing yourself, send them in, and they will only be responsible for pick-and-place to put them on the board. Otherwise, minimum quantity is 5.
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Sierra Circuits (California, USA), min. qty. 3
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Precision Circuit Board Source, LLC (low quantity runs from California, USA; high quantity runs from Asia-based manufacturing facility), min. qty. 16