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My purchase list for my new lab -- budget $1000+, thoughts?
tooki:
How weird! Here in Switzerland, it’s the Chinese shipments (whether ePacket or not) that take 2-5 weeks, while Tayda has consistently arrived in under a week!!!
nanofrog:
--- Quote from: tooki on July 31, 2018, 08:12:54 pm ---How weird! Here in Switzerland, it’s the Chinese shipments (whether ePacket or not) that take 2-5 weeks, while Tayda has consistently arrived in under a week!!!
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That's seriously weird IME. :-// Though I suspect it's more to do with actual component availability than actual shipping times (i.e. your order calls for x of Y component they're out of, so they hold the entire order until Y component arrives to them).
Just a WAG, but in past threads, this seems to be the case based on other members' experiences. :-// Can't prove this myself, but regardless, I've no issues with ordering from them. I can always watch TV or YT vids while I wait. :o :-DD
AnyNameWillDo:
Tayda is taking about a week for me (ordered some stripboard there) -- Amazon is always a day or two but they're better for certain equipment rather than component parts. Meanwhile DigiKey has any part imaginable but there are so many variants of each piece that choosing among them is tricky. AliExpress/China/etc so.agonizingly.slow for me here in the States, and I'm much too impatient.
At least right now I'm not trying to get too specialized per se, trying to stock up on common jellybean parts/ICs and then trying to see which among the parts at DigiKey these correspond to.
tooki is going to kill me (I can see him going |O :palm: :horse: :rant: :wtf: already) but I also tossed in some alligator clips. I know, I know, I know -- they suck and all, I just want to experience the suckage for myself and then better appreciate the minigrabbers. ;D Otherwise the mystery is going to eat at me.
ez24:
Talking about kits and ATMini, I found that kits from TronClub to be excellent
http://tronclub.com/
Their website sucks and email support sucks but I took a chance on their Advance course and it was on the ATMini. Last year they only had 3 kits on it but there were many lessons. The biggest surprise was the quality of the documentation, it was very very good. I believe they hired someone to write it. Best kit docs I have ever come across. No PDFs and I think they changed the way they present it. They try to protect the documentation, rightfully so.
http://forum.tronclub.com/index.php
Worth trying out a kit
Edit: The kits are based on teaching theory, not building something. All my "kits" were built on breadboards, no circuit boards.
bitseeker:
Speaking of component sources and speed, lately Arrow has been doing free overnight shipping. Their site search needs replacing, but otherwise, if they have it in stock then there's practically no waiting anymore. Pretty cool.
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