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Any experience with JLC PCB house in china?

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suku:
https://jlcpcb.com/

I see JLC PCB sponsored videos all over youtube, their prices are crazy low, so I was wondering if their boards were any good...

I'm have to order a batch of couple hundred boards and the their price calculator gave me 45% lower price than PCBWay. (129x81mm 1.6mm 1oz etc.)

If anyone has experience with JLCPCB, please share it below, I'm looking forward to hearing from you guys!

TheUnnamedNewbie:
I recently ordered a set of 10 4-layer boards from them. They should arrive any moment, so I'll try to remember to share the experience here.

josip:
BTW, here is 2 weeks old review, with hi-res board picture.
https://idyl.io/2018/02/11/jlcpcb-prototype-pcbs-review/

hcglitte:
I have also ordered 10 large 4 layer boards with ENIG and some QFN footprints. I wonder if they manage to have solder mask between the pins.

I have previously used PCBCART for the same board, so will be interesting to see...

However, I just received an email that they wanted to alter my stencil file,
even though I told them in the notes that they must keep the apertures unchanged.
May be a language barrier...

This happens all the time regardless of where I order from. I just cannot understand that they want to do changes to it
even though I state in many different ways that they must not alter it in any way!!! My apertures are reduced and fine as they are.

Also, there is no select-box to choose stencil thickness. So you have to write this in the notes.

usagi:
I switched to jlcpcb from oshpark.

jlcpcb have incredibly quick turnaround times for me. I submit order sunday and receive boards thursday. dhl shipping, $18. boards are really cheap. i suspect the quick turnaround time is because while oshpark outsources to manufacturers, jlcpcb IS the manufacturer. i have a weekly cadence going with them where i receive a board, hack on it for a couple days, make pcb changes in easyeda and submit new boards for the upcoming week. i have a bunch of projects going in parallel so i almost always have some order to submit for the coming week.

their loss leader is 2 layer 1oz copper fr4 green boards. as long as you stick with that the boards are super cheap. they don't charge extra for silkscreen on bottom of a 2 layer board.

I also started using their part service, lcsc.com. for the components I buy, they end up being a fraction of the cost of mouser or digikey parts. yes, they tend to be Chinese parts but for my hobbyist stuff it largely doesn't matter.

the nice thing about the boards is that they come fully machined and clean, unlike the oshpark boards which still have the panelizing snapoff bits on them.

i also like the integration with easyeda, it is basically three clicks from schematic -> pcb -> order. they obviously want to make it easy to spend money with them.  ;D

here's a really simple board I did with easyeda and ordered from jlcpcb.

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