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mikeselectricstuff:
Re. the comments on Farnell vs Digikey pricing - I'm increasingly finding Farnell to be significantly cheaper for a lot of stuff - Mouser are also often cheaper then DK, comparable to Farnell. Seems to depend a lot of manufacturer, and in some cases the difference can be many tens of percent at 100x qtys.
Unfortunately DK tend to carry significantly more stock, so on several occasions I've cleared out Farnell's stock and made up the balance from DK.

EEVblog:
Yeah, it's just pot really with which one will have the best prices. Newark/Farnell/Digikey/Mouser. That's where the likes of findchips.com and octopart.co0m come in.

All things considered, Digikey does seem to have the biggest overall range.

Dave.

saturation:
I read of Futurlec, any comments?  There are some posts on the net quite bad, and many good.

http://www.futurlec.com/AboutUs.shtml


--- Quote from: shafri on July 30, 2010, 11:52:57 pm ---any "good" electronics store nearby asia? i believe both farnell and digikey will charge substantial shipping cost to asian.


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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: saturation on July 31, 2010, 11:05:52 am ---I read of Futurlec, any comments?  There are some posts on the net quite bad, and many good.

http://www.futurlec.com/AboutUs.shtml

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Only if you are a hobbyist. No professional organisation would touch them, as they aren't an official supplier for anyone. Most likely all gray market parts.

Dave.

Simon:
in the UK digikey is so horribly expensive I'd not touch them, in fact do not have an account yet, unless they have that exotic part nobody else has, RS are just a bunch of wankers these days so I tend to use farnell mostly

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