Building PCB in Europe is soooo expensive...

[Melkhior]

A simple PDS adapter with 2 slots for the IIci, so just 8 lines in the BoM for SMT (two for resistors, four for capacitors, small switch & a single 1G3157 IC switch).

JLCPCB breakdown for 5 boards:
Merchandise Total $48.87
Shipping $20.22
Customs duties & taxes $13.82
Grand Total: $82.91

That's with HASL, ENIG adds around $20 so ~$25 after customs.

And from a European manufacturer for 6 boards (cheaper than 5 by around 1€) which seems to require ENIG:
Net Total €312.81
VAT 19 % €59.43
Total €372.24

I guess it'll get made in China...

EDIT: forgot the $9 coupons that everybody get all the time at JLCPCB... $72.11, or €67.22 after the bank's exchange rate.

 

[max1zzz]

Yep.
I have looked many, many times as getting PCB's produced in Europe and it;s just uneconomical for hobbiest level stuff. One IIcx board would cost me about 2-3x the total cost of 5 of them shipped from JLC last time I looked. And that's assembly

Even among Chinese manufacturers JLC tends to be cheap, I have looked at PCBWay a few times as I have not been that happy with the quality of the solder resist JLC have been using for the last few years but even they tend to be significantly more expensive.

 

[Melkhior]

I have looked many, many times as getting PCB's produced in Europe and it;s just uneconomical for hobbiest level stuff

Yes, and it's quite frustrating. This particular manufacturer in Germany (aisler.net) used to have a service where they shipped parts along the PCB, but not assembled; for through-hole, it was convenient to avoids shipping costs on €2 worth of components. I did my MAC/VGA adapter and the custom VGA PMod that I originally used fort my SBus-based framebuffer (which was later used as the basis for the three Mac *FPGA freambuffers). But they have discontinued that service :-(

For the really simple stuff like the dual-slot PDS, I keep trying to see if it could work, but that's over 4.5x the cost per board...