Quoted from barakandl:Something the size of the Bally MPU takes about 1.5 hours each with through hole parts.
That's impressive. I'd have ball-parked a few hours on those. You're moving pretty quick! I'd imagine soldering one type of component at a time across 5-10x boards is the better way to make speed.
Been looking for assembly options myself. It's going to take time to work that out, but you realize after a bit that doing everything yourself is going to be impossible at some point. Looks like it's going to take volume to get the price where it needs to be. Not something that makes sense with a low-volume type of product like diagnostic tools.. but makes more sense with MPU boards or similar repro boards that are needed.
