That's what we thought as
That's what we thought as well, and so we got in contact with a bunch of local and some not so local assembly facilities, and after sorting out those which didn't meet our criteria we had each of them produce five of our sensor front-end PCBs. The three remaining facilities, two local and one overseas took their time and complained about various things, but finally delivered those five assembled boards. Unfortunately, only a fraction of the returned boards actually worked, and we had some trouble fixing the boards later on. We also spent a huge amount of money on building prototypes during the EU project, which is not something we can and want do on the limited budget we are working on, so we decided that we simply have to do it ourselves if we do not want to spend a lot of money and still get it done properly.
Don't get me wrong, if we find the right assembly place which is flexible enough for our special requests and still affordable, we gladly drop our prototype and production plans. So please by all means, get us in contact with those really skillful people ....
Thanks and all the best,
Herbert
