Boards made in Bulgaria
15.03.2008 16:11
Remember this little project? Yesterday the first batch of circuit boards arrived by post from manufacture.
These were made by Bulgarian Bilex-LP. I first heard about them some years ago in Berlin on one of CCCs and this was an opportunity to try them out (since now Bulgaria is part of European union and there aren't any customs charges).
The boards are nicely manufactured. Copper is perfectly etched as far as I can see and RoHS coating is flawless. The only glitch I found is that the drilling is off for maybe 1/4 mm and silk screen print off for a mm on one piece, but at least for these boards that's nothing near critical. Definitely better than what I could done in my home workshop.
Their prices are also lower than Slovenian companies - at least if you need only a couple of boards and don't mind waiting three weeks for manufacture and delivery. So it's definitely a positive experience (and I'm willing to forget that they renamed me first to Tomaz Solz and, after I reminded them, to Thomas Solc).
