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From: michael@python.UUCP (M. Cain)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Looking for advice on building 10-12 copies of a circuit board
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 15:06:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 15:06:14 1985
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There was recently an extensive discussion about building
onesies and twosies on the net, and I don't recall which
group it was in, but net.micro seems a reasonable place
to ask this question:

I need to build ten or twelve copies of a circuit board,
and would prefer not to do it by hand (a wire-wrapped
prototype involved several hundred point-to-point
connections).  How do people feel about some of the
options available?

 - Automated wire wrap done from a complete schematic
   and a component map by a company like Augat?

 - Printed circuit board, with quite an expense up front
   in getting the design and the artwork right.

 - Something else?

Locally, I've heard about bad experiences with the automated
wire wrap, to the tune of 5-10% of the wires connected to
the wrong post at at least one end, which sounds like a real
pain to debug.

Thanks in advance,

Michael Cain
Bell Communications Research
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