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Purchasing parts and basic components for a new lab
tooki:
Also, a good happy medium for some components is Tayda Electronics from Thailand. They’re not as cheap as Chinese vendors, but they also arrive in a week or less, vs 1-4 weeks for China.
But I agree, as a US resident, you can get stuff fast anyway. One approach to consider might be to stagger, over the course of perhaps a year, your preemptive purchases from Digi-Key into a few orders that each exceed the 50 dollar minimum for free shipping. That way you can easily tack on the oddball components onto an order without having to artificially pad the order to the minimum. :)
Z80:
It's great to see you so enthusiastic about starting out but try and resist the temptation to buy everything you see. To give you an idea, I have been doing electronics / computing for over 30 years both as a hobby and professionally and still end up having to order parts for most projects. Even if money & space aren't a problem you just end up losing track of stuff and find yourself buying them again ;D It would be great to see you build some stuff and maybe post your progress. PS be wary of buying silicon from ebay, there are a lot of fake parts which won't help your learning.
Old Printer:
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--- Quote from: rhb on July 26, 2018, 11:00:40 pm ---I spent several *days* ordering infill for my passives. And a week binning them.
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What do you mean by binning them?
Surely you don't mean measuring them all?
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I believe binning is an UK term for sorting components and placing them in small compartments or drawers so it is easy to find them quickly when needed. I think most people that buy components in bulk measure/check them when used unless you buy in "grab bag" style.
Jwillis:
Search "SMD Component Welding Practice Board" on Ebay .Theirs lots of them.I've never tried one myself and not sure what they do when finished. As for silicon from Ebay ya it's possible that some might be fake .But if you buy components from a vendor that also sells lingerie you probably want to steer clear of that one. :-DD .There are lots of electronic dedicated vendors available that have very good products.
sokoloff:
--- Quote from: Old Printer on July 27, 2018, 11:47:40 am ---I believe binning is an UK term for sorting components and placing them in small compartments or drawers so it is easy to find them quickly when needed.
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I always thought "binning" was "discarding in trash" in the UK.
We use that word in our factories to mean "consolidate items together [in a plastic bin] so they can be shipped together".
It's always amusing to explain to our new EU colleagues (most of whom learned British English) "OK, this product is produced and passed quality checks perfectly; now we need to bin it..."
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