PCB(Printed Circuit Board) is a conductive pattern formed on conductive material according to the engineers’ design, there only traces/ holes/layers on it, but without any components installed.
While the PCBA(PCB+ Assembly) means a bare PCB board assembled with components such as resistors/ capacitors/ IC, to make the whole circuit board works as intended. After the PCB was designed by electronic engineers, the files (Normally production files, called Gerber files, but not original design files schematic& PCB layout, to keep the original design safe, and thus to protect the intellectual property) can be sent to PCB factories for production. Meanwhile, after components sourced, and then they can be installed on the PCB board, and final programming, testing… And finally, a PCBA manufactured, that be ready for an electronic project.
But this is not actually an easy work, especially for a maker & startup, there're many processes to create a working PCBA board…
Pcbalab provides the turnkey PCBA service from PCB manufacturing, components sourcing, PCB board assembly, soldering, programming, testing to end shipping. With this one-stop and quick turn PCB assembly service, the electronic designers do not need to suffer from these very detailed works such as soldering the prototype board, and thus can concentrate on the electronics creating and PCBA designing works.
Pcbalab is IoT/ smart-home hardware designer, and PCBA prototype assembly/ small batch producer in Shenzhen, to help makers/ startups creating the electronics hardware rapidly:
There're many kinds of PCBs, vary from the board materials, mainly:
Below are some PCB( or PCBA) boards, with FR4/ FPC/ Aluminum/ Rogers material:
| Multi Layers: | 1-2-4-6-8-12 Layers | Surface Finish: | Hasl Lead-Free/ ENIG/ Silver |
| Vias: | NPTH/ PTH/ Blind Vias/ Buried Vias/ HDI | Special Process: | Half-holes/ Golden Finger |
| Board Color: | Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Black, Matte Black, Purple, Support Customizing | Silk Color: | White/ Black |
| Max Size: | 80x80 cm | Out Layer Copper Thickness: | 1oz/ 2oz/ 3oz |
| MOQ: | 1 PCS | Inner Layer Copper Thickness | 0.5 oz/ 1oz |
| Thickness: | 0.4/ 0.6/ 0.8/ 1.2/ 1.6/ 2.0/ 2.4 | PTH Hole Tolerance | 0.1mm |
| Thickness Tolerance: | +/- 0.1mm | NPTH Hole Tolerance | 0.05mm |
| Minimum Track Space: | 6 mil | Minimum Silkscreen Text Width: | 6 mil |
| Minimum PCB Track Width: | 6 mil | Minimum Pads Space: | 6 mil |
If only bare PCBs needed, there're many PCB online shops that provide fast PCB service, then can make you complete a PCB order in 2 minutes. In Pcbalab express PCB service, you can:
Of course, for complex PCB fabrication, and special requests, it would be easier to contact your project manager or drop an email to service@pcbalab.com to check and quote for you, you will get the feedback within 24 hours.
If a fully assembled PCBA board needed, for PCB manufacturing and assembly, a few steps to Order PCBA from Pcbalab:
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Pcbalab accept payment
For payments less than $1,000. As you confirmed the quotation, you can:
For payment >$1,000, the wire transfer would be cost-effective. Leave a bank slip to your project manager, so we can start the PCBA production without waiting for the bank confirmation. Your project manager will send the bank account for payments.
As the lead time, for PCBA prototypes assembly(<50 pcs), 12 working days needed, and 15 working days for mass production. The detailed lead time depends on many factors such as the components sourcing difficulty/ testing time, so the final lead time many altered for each project.
Pcbalab will keep the customer in touch in the whole process of PCB assembly production, or customer can check the update with your project manager anytime.
With more than 5 years' experience in PCBA manufacturing, Pcbalab treat quality as the most important factor in our business, to ensure the final boards quality, Pcbalab acts strictly as quality control as:
Pcbalab support most of the main express shipping include DHL/ FedEx/ UPS/ TNT:
As many of the projects are intends for personal usage, or for new startups, to help our customers clean the customs easier, Pcbalab can help to declare the package value as customer’s requests. But note the DDU shipping policy is applied, that if tax needed, customers will bear that.
Pcbalab cherish every relationship with customers and serves every customer by heart. Pcbalab would be 100% responsible for the mistakes/ faults in the production. If there are indeed some problems in our production that lead to your loss, you can directly contact your project manager or service@pcbalab.com to request re-production or even a refund.
Pcbalab would be glad to hear your suggestions/ complaints if not satisfied, and your recommendations to your friends with your satisfaction.
Your originality and all design files security stored & protected at Pcbalab. Pcbalab promise:
Besides, Pcbalab can assign NDA Files to the customer, to protect customers’ intellectual property legally.
As a turnkey PCB assembly manufacturer in China, in the past 5 years, there more than 500 electronic projects assembled at Pcbalab, vary from PCB, PCB assembly, kits assembly, to the final product solution. Mainly projects on IoT/ Smart Home/ Educational...