GetLoFi Kit PCBs are Now Cut In-House to be More Economical
New PCBs for the GetLoFi Quad Oscillator Kit have arrived,
however that is not the end of the story, just the beginning. At
one point I figured out that there is a magic ratio between the
board area and the cost of the production run. As it turns out
it is cheaper to produce larger boards than smaller sized ones,
go figure! Its not merely the surface area but the number of
cuts that plays into the over all cost driving up the complexity
of the job and the price with it. Some PCB houses will also not
make boards that are below a certain size. What is a small hobby
business person to do? The answer came from Circuit Specialists
in a giant heavy box filled with Styrofoam containing  a
Professional PCB Cutter.  Now this might seem like an over kill
but in the initial run this tool helped to bring costs down by
over 55% and that is factoring in the price of the cutter into
the total production cost. Subsequent runs will receive
perpetual cost saving ben