Re: Recommendation for prototype CM (BGA reflow, mainly)

> > at a reasonable price, reflow these BGA parts onto a PCB for me. I
> > don't want anything else stuffed, just this one part, since I need to
>
> Tin-foil, a heat-gun and a sacrificial apprentice :-p

I don't even need the tinfoil for this, as there are no other parts on
the board - however my success rate with this method has been <50% and
these chips are $30 each (the PCBs are $175 each). I really want them
to be mounted by someone with a better yield :). Anything up to about
$100 per board is, statistically, good value!

> I've used Invotech for low volume production runs and they were mostly OK
> with BGA and are a lot better now (I think we were used as guinea pigs.) If
> you talk about approx 1K volumes you might be able to wangle two or three
> development boards for free to prove their processes.

I'll check them out, however I don't want to lie to anyone - the 1K is
very much a maybe.

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