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It's not that hard to solde rthem up -- it's just time consuming...
Fully assembled and tested new boards would end up going at or above going rates for old stock working boards.

Would it be crazy expensive for you to order the boards with all components already populated when you received them? Or would that require a very large volume to make sense?

I'm guessing the answer is yes because I don't see a lot of that going on by people that make these boards. I'll also go out on a limb and speculate that having a Chinese board factory make complete boards would be bad because they'd run their own stock immediately and start selling them themselves.
 
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Would it be crazy expensive for you to order the boards with all components already populated when you received them? Or would that require a very large volume to make sense?

I'm guessing the answer is yes because I don't see a lot of that going on by people that make these boards. I'll also go out on a limb and speculate that having a Chinese board factory make complete boards would be bad because they'd run their own stock immediately and start selling them themselves.

PCB fabs dont really do through hole anymore... its far cheaper for them to do pick and place SMD and reflow.

...not to mention that the parts make the boards a LOT heavier for shipping from the fab...
 
PCB fabs dont really do through hole anymore... its far cheaper for them to do pick and place SMD and reflow.

...not to mention that the parts make the boards a LOT heavier for shipping from the fab...

Interesting. Thanks Mark!
 
Finally got the boards back and had a little time to play.

After some minor rework, it's running on the bench and no longer watchdogging, but I didn't have 22VAC or a vector monitor, so I couldn't *really* test it.

Going to need to dig out my cab....
 
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