Arrow Electronics having 50-75% off mostly NRND and obsolete components/hardware

[Psi]

Came across this large powersupply for $3
960 Watt 3 Phase input 22.5 – 29.5VDC Output @ 40A
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/redin960-243ac/recom-power

Heh, that item is now $435, so they either realized it shouldn't have been discounted or decide its just too damn heavy to sell for $3 haha
I wonder who on here bought one .

[Whales]

She's dead jim

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EDIT: Wait no new browser session fixed that.

[SuperSVGA]

Heh, that item is now $435, so they either realized it shouldn't have been discounted or decide its just too damn heavy to sell for $3 haha
I wonder who on here bought one .

Things seem to go up in price once sold out. I bought the whole stock of some items and they immediately reappeared in stock again at 30x the price.

[mikeselectricstuff]

Came across this large powersupply for $3
960 Watt 3 Phase input 22.5 – 29.5VDC Output @ 40A
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/redin960-243ac/recom-power

Heh, that item is now $435, so they either realized it shouldn't have been discounted or decide its just too damn heavy to sell for $3 haha
I wonder who on here bought one .

Or maybe an automated system is set up to reset the price once the clearance stock is gone, so if it ever comes back into stock for any reason, the price will be correct 

[Whales]

Welp, there goes 750AUD.  Half of that went to about 7KM worth of cabling.

I got myself 16AWG, 18AWG, 22AWG in all cheap colours in both XLPVC and silicone insulation (including some in silicone + fiberglass because it was cheap).  BOM attached to upload if you're lazy and want links to all the wiring.

Tips if you are now going through the (broken) Arrow website yourself:

(1) Do not log in, do not use the cart.  Fill out a spreadsheet with part numbers and quantities instead.  The website is too unreliable to do it any other way.  Later you can login and use the BOM import tool.

(2) When the website breaks (in any number of ways): clear your cookies or start a new private session.  This will immediately fix it.

(3) Try all of the links as a starting point, they are varying amounts of broken with ever changing amounts of items listed (buggy!)

https://www.arrow.com/en/overstock/50-75-off
https://www.arrow.com/en/overstock/new-low-prices

If you already know a category you want then use the website's normal search or category functions (ignore the overstock links) and sort by cheapest instead, this completely avoids the major filtering bugs in the next point. 

(4) Filtering and pagination are completely broken when browsing these discounted/overstock links.  You can click the major categories at the top (the horizontally scrollable resistors, capacitors, power supplies, etc), but you CANNOT use the filter functions after that!  Or click any page numbers!

If you do then your category gets reset and you end up with lots of tiny passives listed instead.  Not what you want.

You have to manually put the category (cat= or prodline= or similar) back in the URLs to work around this.  Eg:

https://www.arrow.com/en/overstock/50-75-off?cat=Connectors
https://www.arrow.com/en/overstock/50-75-off?sortBy=calculatedPrice&sortDirection=asc

Let's merge the two.  You use ampersands (&) to do this:
https://www.arrow.com/en/overstock/50-75-off?cat=Connectors&sortBy=calculatedPrice&sortDirection=asc

Adding &page=2 to the end is also extremely useful!

A more complex example:

https://www.arrow.com/en/overstock/50-75-off?prodLine=AC+to+DC+Power+Supplies&filters=Output+Voltage:12;&sortBy=calculatedPrice&sortDirection=asc&page=1


Good luck to all of you!  There is a lot of cheap wire to be had.  I dearly hope this isn't a scam 

[Whales]

No GST listed on invoice (total ~750AUD).  Not sure if they will amend this to eat the GST costs or if I will get it demanded on import.  Will update you all when I find out what happens.

[deadlylover]

No GST listed on invoice (total ~750AUD).  Not sure if they will amend this to eat the GST costs or if I will get it demanded on import.  Will update you all when I find out what happens.

I've never been charged GST from Arrow. I think the rule was if it was <AUD1000 it's up to the vendor to collect, but Arrow never seemed to give a crap hahaha (unlike say mouser/digikey).

[scottapotamas]

No GST listed on invoice (total ~750AUD).  Not sure if they will amend this to eat the GST costs or if I will get it demanded on import.  Will update you all when I find out what happens.

Arrow kick the problem to Fedex to claim. I've had a handful of phonecalls and emails back and forth with Fedex this week about the amount of GST I owe for my 4k scope order.

Because I stacked a '10% discount over $500' code (CHECKOUT10 or WELCOME10), the price on the shipping manifest was ~400 higher than the invoiced amount and there was no sign of the discount on the invoice paperwork/Arrow's system.
Fedex's process just wore me down and I had real work to be doing... Still a good deal though.

[edavid]

Here are a few things I found that I thought were good deals, or might give ideas of things to search for:

ATmega328P in DIP $0.99
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pis-0020/pi-supply

Microchip op amps in DIP $0.08-$0.15
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/mcp6231-ep/microchip-technology
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/mcp6242-ep/microchip-technology
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/mcp6273-ep/microchip-technology
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/mcp6291-ep/microchip-technology

TLV431 in TO92 $0.12
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/tlv431alpg/on-semiconductor

conductive plastic pots $0.12 these turned out to have detents
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pcw1j-r24-bbb502l/bourns

dual pots $0.07-0.10
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pdb182-gtr01-504a2/bourns
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pdb182-gtrb1-504mn/bourns

0.1% THT resistors starting at $0.02
https://www.arrow.com/en/categories/resistors/fixed-resistors/resistor-fixed-single-through-hole?page=1&promoGroupLevel=main&perPage=25&sortBy=calculatedPrice&sortDirection=asc&filters=In%20Stock:Yes;Tolerance:0.1%;

example 10K 0.1% $0.06
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/rnf14btd10k0/stackpole-electronics
(there are also some OK deals on 0.01% resistors)

170 tie point solderless breadboards, 6 for $0.26
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pis-0049/pi-supply

[wraper]

 $0.12 2m flat ethernet patch cord (connector on one end only) https://www.arrow.com/en/products/513-26-8800-bl-0007f/cnc-tech-llc
$0.39 same as above but 7.62m https://www.arrow.com/en/products/513-26-8800-bl-0025f/cnc-tech-llc
$0.68 15ft CAT6 patch cord 50u gold contacts https://www.arrow.com/en/products/dk-1611-015b/assmann-wsw-components-inc
$0.18 Cat 5e UTP 15ft https://www.arrow.com/en/products/dk-1511-015g/assmann-wsw-components-inc
$0.13 Cat 5e UTP 3m https://www.arrow.com/en/products/amje0808-0300-bub-24/assmann-wsw-components-inc
$0.20 10m CAT 6 https://www.arrow.com/en/products/a-mcu60010/assmann-wsw-components-inc

EDIT: nah, those were expensive
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/n002-010-bl/tripp-lite
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/n001-006-bl/tripp-lite

[Whales]

Make sure you hit the minimum quantity for price breaks, you don't want to be caught paying 5 times the price.

[thm_w]

Now do you think this item is per meter, foot or unknown length roll?  They say they have 5000 so IDK.  https://www.arrow.com/en/products/eg8797-000/te-connectivity

Per foot, mouser sells the same thing.

Here are a few things I found that I thought were good deals, or might give ideas of things to search for:

Yeah lots of component deals too, just, incredibly hard to search, and unless you use the part already, difficult to justify.

Make sure you hit the minimum quantity for price breaks, you don't want to be caught paying 5 times the price.

Don't order 0pc? lol

[NiHaoMike]

Heh, that item is now $435, so they either realized it shouldn't have been discounted or decide its just too damn heavy to sell for $3 haha
I wonder who on here bought one .

I did, the internal converter can apparently handle up to 800V DC (from rectifying 575V AC, if they don't internally use an autotransformer to knock it down) which would be good to adapt into an auxiliary power supply for solar power. Assuming I actually get it, I plan to take some teardown pictures, I'm curious what they would use at 800V, my guess is 1200V or greater IGBTs in a half bridge or full bridge configuration.

[Smoky]

Here's another good Hammond buy for those in the United States.

It's a 32 CFM 115v AC tube-axial fan. It's made by Circuit Test and runs at .12 Amps. That's very good compared to the CFM's that it's pushing.

It has a possible life of 50,000 hours



It's $1.50 compared to its regular price of $42. There are 9 left for sale:

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/fan80ac115/hammond-manufacturing

I'm going to build custom cabinets for an electronics lab in my garage and I'll use the fan and a filtered grille to draw solder fumes through some hidden ducts 

[wraper]

I mentioned enclosures already, but this has aluminum end panels and just $0.05 (134.00 135.00 51.00mm)
$1.5 24 port patch panel https://www.arrow.com/en/products/nkmp24y/panduit
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/nkppa24fmy/panduit
48 port https://www.arrow.com/en/products/nkmp48y/panduit

[aeg]

I mentioned enclosures already, but this has aluminum end panels and just $0.05 (134.00 135.00 51.00mm) https://www.arrow.com/en/products/1598plbbk/hammond-manufacturing

Watch out! 1598BBK is the enclosure with aluminum end panels. 1598PLBBK is two plastic end panels only, no enclosure.

[rsjsouza]

I mentioned enclosures already, but this has aluminum end panels and just $0.05 (134.00 135.00 51.00mm) https://www.arrow.com/en/products/1598plbbk/hammond-manufacturing

Watch out! 1598BBK is the enclosure with aluminum end panels. 1598PLBBK is two plastic end panels only, no enclosure.

The 1598BSGY is quite low priced (US$0.35) and it is a full enclosure according to Hammond themselves
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/1598bsgy/hammond-manufacturing
https://www.hammfg.com/part/1598BSGY

[Psi]

I mentioned enclosures already, but this has aluminum end panels and just $0.05 (134.00 135.00 51.00mm) https://www.arrow.com/en/products/1598plbbk/hammond-manufacturing

Watch out! 1598BBK is the enclosure with aluminum end panels. 1598PLBBK is two plastic end panels only, no enclosure.

Yeah there's a few 10 packs like that. Not instantly obvious unless you read it carefully.


I'm a little surprised all 52 of these 2.35GHz-2.55GHz / 4.85GHz - 6.1GHz RF Explorers are still there.
Pretty sure you could flip them all and make a little profit.
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/114990162/seeed-technology-limited
That being said, the 1 I ordered has not showed up yet, maybe they're junk

[arlo_g]

Quick note re. Arrow's terrible website.

If you login through a new private browser window, then you get a new 15minutes or whatever the magic timeout is when everything on the site dies.  I think that implies that the site sets a cookie that results in everything crapping out after the timeout interval.

Enjoy!

[wraper]

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pup6as04bl-g/panduit I wonder about quantity for the piece ordered. Seems could be a whole roll according to part number and description. I'm inclined ordering 100 pieces but are afraid of receiving a full van of cable  .

[themadhippy]

n. I'm inclined ordering 100 pieces but are afraid of receiving a full van of cable

at 5c id be buying it all. striping it and straight down the scrapys

[wraper]

^added 100 pieces each of 5 different colors to the cart, if they'll be full rolls, I'll end up with 7 tonnes of cable.

[Whales]

Some of the arrow listings I looked at said per foot, others pet meter, and many had no info.  All of them had "roll length" in the description somewhere.

I think the hint might be in the stock level.  If it's thousands of units then it's probably per-foot/meter.  If it's a dozen then it's probably per-roll.  Inbetween I'm not sure.

[themadhippy]

if they'll be full rolls, I'll end up with 7 tonnes of cable.

and even if  50% of thats copper you got yerself around $20k going by the latest scrap price

[Psi]

I find it extremely unlikely they have 4,999 boxes of 305m and that they are happy shipping a huge box for basically free