Need help with balance of cleaning and grade. I am leaning high peripheral with two good ICs on a small board and MLCCs on the back. I can clean some more, but get into the time return trade off. Sent in a prior batch that had a little more chip density and more relays, graded by boardsort as peripheral high.
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Me personally. I would submit as is in your photo as High Peripheral. Very clean. No metal. That little orange drop. Possible gold contact on the one connector. The relay gold contact. Being small signal. It is close on the call. But. You got a lot. Compacted in a small space.
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Thank you. Right in line with what I was thinking.

Cut the ICs off, board in low/mid grade. Make more that way I'm betting. One IC is ceramic. As is , Low per. Think of it this way, this is no better than an integrated board or MOBO, no way makes High per.

Now that is something to think about. I never even considered what Spence1015 suggested. I am not big on removing components. But it is a solution to a difficult evaluation. Thanks for your feedback. Spence1015.
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thank you, spence.
I had considered depopulation briefly. these boards are 8 to the pound. The chips weigh 0.2 ounces together (almost all of that is the ceramic chip) with their legs, so 1.6 ounces from a pound of boards. At $16/pound that is $1.60 plus 0.50 for the 8 now mid-grade boards is a loss of $1.40 per pound (using the low periph price of $3.50/pound).
I have sent a test batch. I will report on the results.

I was thinking low peripheral too.

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Sent a box with only these boards. Purchased as high peripheral. To me they are on the lower end of this grade, but the quality of the chips and the population on the back of mainly MLCCs makes the grade.

Nice, that's a good upgrade. I'm very surprised they gave you High per. I 've had boards with multiple ICs and way more Mlccs that went Mid grade or Low per. Your board had 1 ceramic IC and 1 plastic with 6 Mlccs. I'm in assumption that the size of the board had a lot to do with it like you said. Weight being light and weight of precious metals