This ShenZhen2U PCB Review focuses on another low cost PCB manufacturing and electronics assembly firm located in China. Their website isn’t the most sophisticated however they offer quite a wide variety of fabrication options under both their standard and premium PCB services.

As a budget PCB fab, I expected my final cost with ShenZhen2U to be on the very affordable side and I wasn’t disappointed when the final price was $9.90/10 copies of the Manufacturing Reports Test Coupon. DHL shipping was an additional $25.53 for an order total of $35.43.

There were no extra shipping or bank fees tacked onto the order, and payment was processed through [...]

PCBWay has been winning the word-of-mouth advertising game for both their PCB Fabrication and Assembly services. Many engineers I’ve spoken with have given glowing assessments of how remarkable it is to be able to order boards for pennies and have them delivered with express shipping, so it was obvious to me it was time to write a PCBWay PCB Review of their prototyping service.

PCBWay is a budget service, coming in only a few dollars more expensive than non-discounted JLCPCB (review of their PCB service here) at $24.00 even. The cost of the boards was $5.00 total for 10 copies of the Manufacturing Reports Test Coupon, and then an additional [...]

JLCPCB, JiaLiChuang PCB, is the low cost king of the prototyping world, coming in at a frankly ridiculous $0.50 per board for 10 copies of the Manufacturing Reports Test Coupon. This JLCPCB PCB Service Review will show the quality of the business service and manufacturing capability of this Chinese manufacturer. They handle prototype orders with their factory in Shenzhen and production orders fulfilled by factories in Xinyu, Shuhai and Daya Baya, so I think it’s safe to say they handle a lot of volume, but does that volume come at the expense of quality.

The total cost of the order for 10 copies of the Manufacturing Reports Test Coupon v1 [...]

As one of the best known and most well regarded PCB prototyping services in the market, I’m excited to be writing this OSH Park PCB review. Acting as an order aggregator, they panelize multiple individual orders together to reduce the manufacturing cost for boards spun with their US based manufacturing partners. One of the prime selling points of using OSH Park as a fabrication partner, is the ease of use of the ordering interface. In addition to standard Gerber file uploads, PCB design files can be directly uploaded as well from EagleCAD and KiCad.

In the 2019 round of circuit board manufacturer reviews, OSH Park was the fifth most [...]