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Soldering the 0603 caps on the bottom would be more than enough for me... Those suckers take me an hour+ to do by hand.

alenppc wrote: 02 Jan 2020 19:31 Soldering the 0603 caps on the bottom would be more than enough for me... Those suckers take me an hour+ to do by hand.

Agreed. Unfortunately first batch will need to be blank. Until we figure it all out.

Then i'll gladly get them to do the assembly.

terriblefire wrote: 02 Jan 2020 19:36

alenppc wrote: 02 Jan 2020 19:31 Soldering the 0603 caps on the bottom would be more than enough for me... Those suckers take me an hour+ to do by hand.

Agreed. Unfortunately first batch will need to be blank. Until we figure it all out.

Then i'll gladly get them to do the assembly.

That sounds great!

terriblefire wrote: 02 Jan 2020 19:26 If they dont... I have a contact that can do the assembly in Scotland.. Probably not as cheap as JLCPCB.. but since he was my Best Man maybe i'll get a good rate (probably have to do the setup myself).

"Proudly designed and partially assembled in Alba"

You'll be running out of room on that silk screen layer :)

C'mon people 54 caps is not that much:)

go0se wrote: 02 Jan 2020 20:18
"Proudly designed and partially assembled in Alba"

You'll be running out of room on that silk screen layer :)

Funnily enough I’ve been watching BBC Alba all day.

Peat n Diesel were on the new year program and they were magic.

EDIT:

And i'm off to see them at Barrowlands later this month :P

Ok according to the BOM.. there are 85 Caps on this board.

Tidying up the actual BOM so that the passives can be assembled.

JLCPCB only do single sided assembly but i think getting the caps done on the bottom is probably a really sensible option.

I suppose there might be a trust issue here that the parts listed at https://jlcpcb.com/client/index.html#/parts are specified exactly as what they say they are rather than selecting from a wider range of possibly higher quality trusted components from e.g. Mouser.

I'd be happy to take a punt on them as they seem like a decent setup.

Just out of interest, At a glance If you go to 'Tools' Menu -> Statistics -> "Element" Tab in Eagle what does the breakdown of caps on the top vs bottom layer look like from the frame on the bottom LHS? Might be necessary to generate the report file to total them up more easily.

Well they'll do it for about $7 apparently ? huh... ok i'm gonna order 5 of them boards and see what gives.