It is the Holiday season agian, which means our manufacturer will be shutting down for a few extended periods of time.  We will still be accepting orders as normal, but here is the schedule for the manufacturer.  December 18th, 2009 is the official shut down until January 3rd, 2010 on which we can start sending panels back out to the manufacturer.  Make sure that your orders are submitted before the 17th of December if you want to have  your order processed and sent out for production before the shut down.  On January 3rd 2010, we can start submitting orders again until January 15th 2010.  During this brief period of manufacturing expect lead times to be a little bit longer due to the manufacturer only accepting orders for 4 hours per day .  January 18th 2010, Batch PCB will be back to normal statuses and lead times.  You can still submit your orders at anytime to Batch PCB during this period of shut down, but they will not be sent out to the manufacturer until they can accept orders.  I suggest making your orders with plenty of time to spare before these dates.  I will make sure everyone's order is processed before the shutdown.

Happy Holidays!

Patrick

Hello BatchPCBers!

I have created a new version of the stats page.  This will give you a better view of our current and future panels.  Mouse over the graphs to find out more info!

I am now working on an exciting new project that we know you will enjoy.  Details will come soon!

Thanks guys!

Alex

Batch PCB understands your needs to receive your  boards in a timely manner.  Thats why we are proud to announce our new lead times for 4-layer PCB orders.  The past lead times for 4-layer PCBs was 8-12 weeks, the new lead time is 5-6 weeks.

Orders no longer have to wait for a panel to be filled to be sent out to the manufacturer.  They are now handled on an order by order basis, which allows us to cut down on the time it takes for you to receive your order.

We hope you enjoy these new lead times and keep sending us your feedback.

Thanks,

Patrick

Hello all! 

As many of you have requested, you can now view which panel your order lies on.  To do this, go into "View Orders" and click on a specific order to find out more information.

You also may notice that future panels are now being estimated based off of the order queue.  This is only an estimate, but it will give you an idea of how close to full our panels will be.

Stay tuned for more updates and as always, keep sending us feedback!

Thanks,

Alex

It has been a great year working with BatchPCB.  Unfortunately, I must be moving on.  We have a new person, Patrick.  I am training Patrick to be the new BatchPCB Gerber Guru.  Soon, Patrick will be taking over panelization, panel processing, and support roles.  Let us welcome Patrick to the BatchPCB family.  I wish BatchPCB and all of its customers the best.

Farewell,

Devlin

Hello all,

It has been a while for a new update, but thanks to all your feedback we have added a couple new features:

1.  You'll notice we have some interesting BatchPCB statistics lined up for you guys, including the line for the DRCBot, how full our current panel is, when the last panel was sent for processing and when the last panel was shipped out to you guys.

   -If you guys want more, just send an email to feedback@batchpcb.com with some more ideas that we get to you guys.

2. You can now print invoices from home.  If you look at your order details, you will be able to download a .pdf version of your invoice.

Thanks guys!

Alex

Hello all,

I have created a new email address for you guys to send us some feedback.  If you have any ideas that you think could improve BatchPCB, send an email to feedback@batchpcb.com.  Please keep them as constructive as you can.  Remember, if you have any technical issues, keep sending those questions to support@batchpcb.com.

Thanks and keep on PCBin'!

Alex

Hello everyone! 

My name is Alex and I am the new BatchPCB web admin.  I have made some small changes over the past week or two that I will upload today.  I will do this update at around 11 AM MST.  Things should go smoothly but if you run into issues please email us at support@batchpcb.com.

Thank you!

Hi All!

The publishing for PCB Designs is a little better now - the descriptions were looking a little funky so I broke down and gave you all a WYSWYG Editor for the description field. Now you can do some simple formating in the descriptions which should look a little nicer.

You can now easily also add a link to a project site for the design and images. Eh, you can't upload images yet but you can display an image from your site - just copy the URL from the image. In some browsers you can simply drag n drop the image from the other site.

Have fun!

Yes - you saw correctly: Cheaper! Yay! How?

Simple - we are not going to round up design size to the nearest inch any more. Except for the 1 square inch minimum, the prices will now be the simply the area of the board calculated during upload.

Repeat: No more rounding up!

Important: Designs panelized together will now return uncut!! As part of the changes that allow us to stop rounding up we now strongly recommend that you do not panelize your design together to get a better price!. You don't need to do that anymore and if you do they will come back as one piece. Just to be clear: this only applies to designs you panelize together yourself and order as one item. Otherwise designs are cut as usual.

Ok .. hey, what about faster? Yes, we hope faster. The past couple of weeks we have been experimenting with the production system - we are hopeful that we can shave a few days off lead times and eliminate the exceptionally long waits. And, yes - the idea is to include four layer boards too, but shhh! I'll give a big shout out about that when we know it is certain.

Alright .. better? Of course! We are always getting better :-).

Enjoy!