Has anyone used #JLCPCB assembly service with some components skipped? Does the paste still get applied to those pads, or does JLC remove those openings from the stencil? If not, I can do it myself, just curious 🙂
There is just to many emails to update this thread.
So far there are 18 mails from #JLCPCB in my inbox.
I send 9 answers.
Also, I used their chat to clarify some things. While it is tedious to make sure all the 'errors' are actually produced the way they are designed, the communication works quite well. The support is responsive, friendly and competent.
Finally #JLCPCB has announced the availability of multi-colored PCBs! (Something that may interest @rc2014, btw). The best part of it is I can finally talk about it, since I was informed this was going to be offered around 2022, but the information was embargoed until the official announcement 😅 #pcb#multicolorpcb#pcbdesign
FFS, now #JLCPCB want to charge me for baking a component (and to see data sheet). It's an LED, one I have used on hundreds of boards, and indeed one board used 500 of them. They work well. This design uses only one. And all orders to date have not needed baking. The data sheet seems to suggest baking if not properly stored - so they want me to pay for them not storing properly?! This is really getting silly now.
You would think specifying a value "124k" on a resistor would get you a 124k. This time it was not my screw up. I have order hundreds of boards, dozens of designs, for at least 6 months with the part simply as "124k". Somehow they now pick a 1.24Ω value when I say "124k", and don't make it at all obvious they have done so. FFS #JLCPCB
The new boards working well, and #JLCPCB silently fixed the polarity on a tantalum capacity. I don't mind them fixing it, but not listing in the "mistakes they fixed" list is annoying. I nearly turned them all around as I had spotted my mistake after ordering. Anyway, with thanks to Randall Munroe of xkcd for some inspiration on the PCB artwork 🙂
#JLCPCB are quick, what is annoyingly slow is DHL. I was hoping I would get my first Waveshare driver boards today so I could play over the weekend. I can't order the smaller ones until I know they work, which is annoying. But Monday they should arrive, yay...
So, on that new JLCPCB colorful silk screen feature that's making the rounds atm. From what I can tell, the colorful silkscreen layers are just plain SVG files, but they encrypt them in a way that only EasyEDA and JLC can read them (and you can't). That means not only can these Gerbers never work with other vendors, you can't even export your own design from EasyEDA in a way you, yourself, can read or import in another tool. #electronics#pcb#jlcpcb#easyeda
I've got a negative review of #jlcpcb to share. For work, we needed a large PCB with a number of variations of the same component. I fought with JLC's support for over a week since they were of the opinion that the PCB contained multiple "designs", whatever that means, and ultimately cancelled my order. I went on to https://pcbshopper.com/ and selected https://elecrow.com/ from the results, who ultimately accepted the same design JLC refused, at a lower price, without any discussion.
Ordered the PCBs of the @hackaday #supercon badges in red from #JLCPCB today, so maybe I'll solder them on the same weekend at least :D I've ordered them in red to mark them as a "bootleg" version, hehe
I can't find a SMD USB port (micro-B or USB C), that's available for assembly on #JLCPCB that I can find a footprint for.
The part numbers aren't on Component Search Engine, I can't figure out how to download the footprints from JLCPCB, and if they're clones of better known parts I have no idea how to match them.
Every other component is easy. USB ports are somehow the only thing I can't figure out.