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My purchase list for my new lab -- budget $1000+, thoughts?
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Z80:
Hi and welcome to the hobby.  Best advice I can give is try and resist being sucked into buying a load of stuff on a whim.  Asking a general question like this will get you 100 different answers from a 100 different people who have 100 different opinions on what is best for you.  Only you know what interests you and there are plenty of things you can do and learn with a breadboard, a cheap DMM and a handful of parts.  Keep the $$ in your pocket and a few months down the line, if you get really hooked you will know yourself what sort of things you need.  As you are in the US, chances are there is a hacker/maker space or club you can go along to and get involved with some stuff there.
AnyNameWillDo:

--- Quote from: Z80 on July 24, 2018, 01:07:23 pm ---Hi and welcome to the hobby.  Best advice I can give is try and resist being sucked into buying a load of stuff on a whim.  Asking a general question like this will get you 100 different answers from a 100 different people who have 100 different opinions on what is best for you.  Only you know what interests you and there are plenty of things you can do and learn with a breadboard, a cheap DMM and a handful of parts.  Keep the $$ in your pocket and a few months down the line, if you get really hooked you will know yourself what sort of things you need.  As you are in the US, chances are there is a hacker/maker space or club you can go along to and get involved with some stuff there.

--- End quote ---

Thanks -- I understand and appreciate the concern, however I do try to do some background research on everything being recommended in this thread to get a good sense of what might work for me.

At any rate I already pulled the trigger on the purchase of a bunch of equipment so that part is done -- at this point looking into parts and components (leds, resistors, capacitors, transistors, diodes, leads/cables/wires, etc).

So far I'm looking at:

Resistors:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112341051881 (4 of these)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/261374861457 (1 of these)

Ceramic Capacitors:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/122542633519 (1 of these)

Electrolytic Capacitors:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/152015420230 (1 of these)

Diodes:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273315944592 (1 of these)

LEDs:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/391368927437 (1 of these)

(I'm assuming these are a sufficient amount spanning the usual ranges of values), trying to use some past posts on this forum as reference, but still tricky. 

Other components, still looking.
HB9EVI:
they are all doing just fine; don't forget a set of foil capacitors and some small signal transistors
AnyNameWillDo:

--- Quote from: HB9EVI on July 24, 2018, 02:43:40 pm ---they are all doing just fine; don't forget a set of foil capacitors and some small signal transistors

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When I search for "foil capacitors" I unfortunately don't see many kits of these.

Also should I be doubling/tripling-up on any of those kits other than resistors?

How about these for transistors (24 types, 35 of each): https://www.ebay.com/itm/840pcs-Transistor-TO-92-Assortment-24-value-NPN-PNP-DIY-kit-2N2222-S9018-BC32/332682436699

Edit: Or this one, 15 types, 40 each: https://www.ebay.com/itm/15-value-600pcs-Transistor-TO-92-Assortment-NPN-PNP-DIY-kit/222509491667
HB9EVI:
the cheapest are polyester: https://de.aliexpress.com/store/product/180-st-cke-LOT-18value-10-st-cke-Polyester-film-kondensator-Assorted-Kit-enth-lt-2A104J/1815642_32857807794.html?spm=a2g0x.12010108.1000016.1.69a7706da6eAYo&isOrigTitle=true

they are fairly ok for most proposes, but for example not considered audiophile

then there are polypropylen, CBB and other kinds.

polyester are doing fine in most cases
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