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We design, make and sell simple circuit boards. Most of our circuits are made at home in our garage, using 'home-brew' equipment.
The circuit boards we produce 'in-house' do not have fancy green solder-resist or multi-colour silkscreen finishes, however they are functional and fairly tidy.
We use a couple of methods to make the bare boards, depending on their size. Smaller boards are made using a 'Toner transfer' method. Larger boards (e.g. TellyMate Kits and 6 Button Shields) are made using a photographic method. The copper tracks on the boards are protected from tarnishing by tinning.
Boards are labelled using the toner-transfer method.
All boards are made using standard FR4 glass-fibre board. The colouring of the boards may vary from the photographs. Our current batch has a distinctive green hue.
If demand is high enough, we may consider getting other people to make more of our boards, but currently it's too expensive for the quantities we would require.
Nothing we do could be considered RoHS compliant.
All our circuits are intended for development systems. They come with no official certifications of any kind.
This website is designed for Firefox. [surely there's a logo we could put here!]
Internet Explorer 7(+) should work OK too, but there might be cosmetic glitches. If the site works at all in other browsers, it's by luck rather than design.
We are not VAT registered.
You can email us @batsocks.co.uk using the following accounts;
We'd be happy to hear from you.
Our aim is to despatch all orders within 3 working days. We are, however, a small team with limited stock levels, so at times of high demand this may rise to 5 working days. We will let you know if your order will take longer than this.
We regret that we are only able to send stuff to the UK at present.
We are currently trialing worldwide shipping.
For UK orders, Royal Mail First Class mail is used (1-2 days).
For overseas orders, Royal Mail Airmail (Small Packets) is used (3 days for Europe, 5 days for the rest of the world).
Postage and Packing charges are based on the total value of your order as follows.
| Order Value | Additional cost of Post and Packing |
|---|---|
| up to £9.99 | £1.50 |
| £10.00 up to £24.99 | £2.00 |
| £25.00 up to £74.99 | £4.00 |
| £75.00 and above | free |
The PayPal shopping basket should add these charges on automatically.
We will not sell (or rent or loan or any other weasly variant) any information we collect to anyone else.
One day, we might get organised enough to start sending out periodic or occasional emails. If and when this happens, our email list will be 'opt-in'. If you ever get a (bulk) email from us, it will be because you have ordered something (and the email is directly to do with that order), or if you have opted-in.
All defaults will be "don't annoy customers".
Our shopping basket is provided by PayPal. You will need to check their website to ensure that you agree with their privacy policy, terms, conditions etc.
Because we use the PayPal basket, we only get to see your money, not your financial details. We like it that way.
All content of this website is copyright Nigel Batten except where stated otherwise.
Don't copy our stuff unless you're allowed to by law, or we explicitly license you to do so.
We really want the sample/example code to be useful to you, so each lump of code comes with details of how we license its use (it's very simple - honest!).
We are (we hope!) rather friendly, so please contact us if you'd like to use some of our stuff in a way that isn't covered above.
"Batsocks", the Batsocks Logo and "TellyMate" are trademarks owned by Nigel Batten. They should not be used without an explicit licence.
If you are making your own version of the TellyMate and would like official approval of your product, please contact us to discuss licensing the TellyMate name. Doing this would also give you early access to any product updates and improvements that come up as part of the TellyMate's continual development.
We are human. We make mistaks.
Your use of any information on this website is at your own risk. It is your own responsibility to ensure that any goods or services available are suitable for your needs.
If a pricing error is found in an order, we reserve the right to either cancel the order or to contact you to arrange payment/return of over/under payment. We reserve the right to cancel any order (obviously returning any payments) prior to its shipment.