Sadly, with my experience of dealing with component and electronics manufacturers in China, a complaint of difficulty is normally associated with a claim for higher cost.
Regards
Ian VK2GL
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On 3 Nov 2021, at 2:07 am, Wayde Nie via groups.io <wayde@...> wrote:
?On 2021-11-02 07:07, Hans Summers wrote:
a WeChat message from the PCB factory complaining about the number of
"holes" in the board and could I optimize it to have less holes!
Holes. HOLES! Holes? Those are not just holes, they are VIAs, man, and
they are crucial to our groundplane stitching! I told them to stop
whining and fire up their machines and let the drilling begin.
Just tell them that you expect a refund/discount of all the pcb material that you're not getting because of all the holes :-) [ hi hi ]
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