Originally Posted by
hills
I think i'm seeing about 1/3 to 1/4 the volume i saw a few years ago. I would be in real trouble if i had to make a living at this.
With the way the board sizes are decreasing I could see the scrap electronics prices going through the floor while the per pound prices on boards increases. What I'm finding is that the newer boards are smaller, but the components are more closely packed leading to a higher yield of chips and components per pound of boards.
It's amazing to see the speed at which these boards are decreasing. The company I work for has been in the process of re-designing some of its older circuit boards for the past few months. These boards used to have all through hole components and were typically 4"x4". After they were re-designed we turned everything into surface mount components and were able to reduce the size of the board down to 2"x2" as well as drastically decrease the price.
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