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

[Smoky]

I never thought that I would find stuff on Arrow for my construction job. Well, I did

Scotch 3M 2090 Painter's Tape 6" wide

     

I ultimately bought 7 rolls in March for $2.25 a roll. Regular price $50 a roll



https://www.adafruit.com/product/2416

[rsjsouza]

I just put my order in for a few items... Couldn't afford to get everything I wanted, unfortunately.

One item that seems interesting is AAA NiMH batteries from Panasonic. (And the website is broken for me at the moment... Will come back with a link later)

[Whales]

(And the website is broken for me at the moment... Will come back with a link later)

Clear your cookies.  See my earlier post about this, their website seems to do an equivalent of blocking you for daring to try and use it and buy things.

[wraper]

^I suggest finding parts in incognito mode and then copying one link at a time to add them to the cart. Reduces chances of it wiping out your cart on next login every 15 minutes it kicks you out.

[rsjsouza]

(And the website is broken for me at the moment... Will come back with a link later)

Now it is up:
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/hhr-75aaab5b/panasonic

(And the website is broken for me at the moment... Will come back with a link later)

Clear your cookies.  See my earlier post about this, their website seems to do an equivalent of blocking you for daring to try and use it and buy things.

Nah, I had this before. It was probably the number of opened connections while logged into their system. The functionality came back as sudden as it went.

Overall, I suspect their website has several limitations regarding the number of opened and closed connections from the same IP. I had several tabs opened, one with each item, all while not yet logged in. When I was ready to place the PO I logged in, put all the parts in a BOM and then added them to the cart from each tab. This worked well.

They asked if I would be willing to provide feedback after the sales is finished. I said yes. Perhaps they will improve their website.

[wraper]

Nah, I had this before. It was probably the number of opened connections while logged into their system. The functionality came back as sudden as it went.

It will come back after a while. However if you use incognito or different browser, it will work right away. Deleting cookies helps too.

[i509VCB]

$35 for an 'RF Explorer | 114990162'   (handheld spectrum analyzer 2.35GHz to 2.55GHz|4.85GHz to 6.1GHz )
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/114990162/seeed-technology-limited


Currently Digikey have 21 of what looks like the same item, same number '114990162', and are selling them for $389
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/seeed-technology-co-ltd/109990063/5487537

These look interesting but I have no idea if these are even worth $35. To confirm this ONLY works with the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands? So nothing in the 900 MHz band?

[wilfred]

Well that was painful. Both using the Arrow website and paying for more stuff. I want everyone to stop immediately placing more temptation in front of me.

All I can say is I better not think of something I should have included.

In the end I was cutting from the arrow website a search term and using another tab to find out more on Digikey etc. That's got to be embarrassing for Arrow.

What a flaky website. Most irritating was it threw up something like "you are not authorised to use this server" and when it logged my off it took a few minutes before it would allow me back on. I don't know if bouncing the browser did anything useful other than to give something to do.

[aeg]

These look interesting but I have no idea if these are even worth $35. To confirm this ONLY works with the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands? So nothing in the 900 MHz band?

2.4GHz and 5GHz bands only. Here's the dope: https://www.seeedstudio.com/RF-Explorer-WiFi-Combo-p-2321.html

[wilfred]

I was just replying to an issue I raised about an item I ordered that came up described differently on the invoice printout. It was all correct by the part number in the end. I'm going to guess the human picks item strictly by the part number. So I got my $4 arduino MEGA2650 clones
https://www.dfrobot.com/product-655.html

They don't appear anymore on the Arrow website and for a day or so there was another listing with what I assume is the normal original sale price of AU$35 or so.
But nothing appears now not even the "A datasheet is only available for this product at this time." placeholder.

EDIT: It's a about 8 hours later and now they have reappeared. But not for AU$6.
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/dfr0191/dfrobot

I've already had one email from Arrow (as I type) asking what I want them to do with items where insufficient stock is on hand. I just told them to proceed with whatever is on hand. I expected that to happen when trawling the bottom of the barrel.

I was happy with these for about 50cents ea https://www.arrow.com/en/products/ctm-21cpn/cal-test-electronics?q=ctm-21cpn  (none left)
These toothless crocodile clips are 5cents and copper. I don't know what their specific purpose is but.

I bought this for AU$6.30 ~US$4. Cal Test Electronics CT2837-2-50 and this is the Digikey listing https://www.digikey.com.au/en/products/detail/cal-test-electronics/CT2837-2-50/5874949

This is where my inexperience may mean I come a cropper. I am expecting or hoping I bought a 50m spool of quite nice copper wire 18AWG. But I was looking at DIGIKEY and they say Quantity 50 unit price AU$3.825  and Ext price AU$191.25.  So the ARROW price of AU$6.81 is double Digikey on a per meter basis. It is possible Arrow is double the price and that is where my inexperience would show up.  However ct2837-4-50 https://www.arrow.com/en/products/ct2837-4-50/cal-test-electronics  is AU$49. So I think I'm ok.

And whilst I was looking at this wire I managed to work out what some will either know or find completely obvious, CT2837-4 and CT2837-2 are yellow and red. The resistor colour code applies. I only worked that out when I went to a manufacturers website and saw them in a list in the datasheet.

And thanks to those who helped me find more stuff I didn't know I wanted.

[wilfred]

lol
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/1301380126/molex

They still have 3 of these left. AU$75 so somewhere near US$50. They list on Mouser for US$4500!!!! Someone should buy them and see about flipping them. No good to me in Australia.

A 7inch TFT LCD screen for under $6? I wish i'd seen it earlier today. Why am I still looking? I'm not buying more dammit!
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/dt070btft-hb-pts1/displaytech

[SuperSVGA]

I am expecting or hoping I bought a 50m spool of quite nice copper wire 18AWG. But I was looking at DIGIKEY and they say Quantity 50 unit price AU$3.825  and Ext price AU$191.25.  So the ARROW price of AU$6.81 is double Digikey on a per meter basis.

Digikey's listing is likely $3.825 per meter, with a minimum package size of 50 meters for a total of $191.25, as opposed to the Arrow price of $6.81 for 50 meters.

[Smoky]

About CT2837-50. You'll be getting a 50 meter spool of wire

Here's the drawing...

[thm_w]

There are a ton of those cal test wires, 50m for $2: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/ct2956-5-50/cal-test-electronics

100MHz probe and some other junk for $18: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/gsa-3743/global-specialties not amazing, but maybe ok if you are just getting started.

[wilfred]

In my travels down the ARROW rabbit-hole yesterday I did get something of a lift from my novice education level. Meuller and Cal Test sold similar products and I did see cross referencing between them and I thought this would be helpful perhaps if you were trying to match up test clips with a compatible insulation sheath.

But I defy anyone to tell me what this is. In under 10 minutes of searching. I got that far and took a pragmatic view that since it clearly wasn't anything in the picture and had a minimum order of 305 for $62.

ARROW website https://www.arrow.com/en/products/ct2878-4-100/cal-test-electronics
Weidmeuller website https://catalog.weidmueller.com/catalog/Start.do?localeId=en&ObjectID=1764090000 and if you then open the PDF datasheet it will tell you it weighs 0.348g is copper alloy and coloured black and is some form of PCB plug in connector.

I am starting to see why companies might have specialists in sourcing components. They could have made this slightly less opaque.

BNC-BNC 30cm cable https://www.arrow.com/en/products/bu-p2249-c-12/mueller-electric-company
Battery clip red https://www.arrow.com/en/products/bu-x15400-2/mueller-electric-company (4x) and https://www.arrow.com/en/products/bu-x15400-0/mueller-electric-company (1x) the later is 7cents
Yellow Bannana test lead 18AWG https://www.arrow.com/en/products/bu-x15400-2/mueller-electric-company
this looked nice and copper https://www.arrow.com/en/products/bu-116k-2/mueller-electric-company I think the K means Kelvin.

Anyway that's a few things I had in my cart but ruthlessly culled. Why I would cull a 7 cent battery clip I don't know but I guess that is why it was ruthless. I still bought a lot of stuff because it was so cheap.

[wraper]

Interesting, they shipped 99 out of the 100 pieces of that ethernet cable and refunded me 5 cents . I guess I got in the end of the queue despite ordering first. Still wonder what a "piece" does actually mean. Shipment notice says 39kg of stuff in total. So at least shouldn't be full boxes. Still not bad for $128 delivered to Europe. My next target are 2 meter long cable ducts  EDIT: nope, it was just the last shipment notice  . It's 25kg (in three packages)+39kg (2 packages), so $2 per kg of stuff. EDIT2: another shipment notice came in, +14kg LMAO.

Unfortunately, we have insufficient inventory for your ordered partPUP6AS04BL-G  We shipped99  pieces out of the 100 pieces ordered. The balance for this item has been cancelled.

[i509VCB]

A note on the RF explorer (https://www.arrow.com/en/products/114990162/seeed-technology-limited). I put it in my cart and at checkout it seems to have surprised me with a $32.48 tariff for a $35.63 bit of equipment. Interestingly the tarriff appears to be based off the prediscount price...

Otherwise I seem to have made it out like a bandit for a bunch of DIP 74 series logic.

[wilfred]

A note on the RF explorer (https://www.arrow.com/en/products/114990162/seeed-technology-limited). I put it in my cart and at checkout it seems to have surprised me with a $32.48 tariff for a $35.63 bit of equipment. Interestingly the tarriff appears to be based off the prediscount price...

Otherwise I seem to have made it out like a bandit for a bunch of DIP 74 series logic.

If arrow are heavily discounting something like your RF explorer then I would have thought it has been sitting on the shelf for years and the tariff was levied at the time of import. Well before it got old on the shelf.

I suppose Arrow can't put the price of the tariff on before they know who will be paying it. I saw some warnings about tariffs but because I'm not in the US I wasn't charged any. I haven't seen a claim for GST yet either. AliX charge it at the time of order at 10% for us Aussies. At least they have in the past and I don't even bother checking it anymore.

[wilfred]

I've checked my 50 item order and unpacked the first few layers. I spent a lot of time riffling through what felt like a ream of paperwork and when I got to the end there was one item unaccounted for.

So I gathered up all the anti-static plastic bags and went through it from that side to see if I had it at one time. Still nothing. Then I took the box I dumped everything into as I was checking, I upended it and returned everything back into it. Still nothing. I was about to email Arrow but decided to go out for a walk first.

It was under my phone. 

[Psi]

I've checked my 50 item order and unpacked the first few layers. I spent a lot of time riffling through what felt like a ream of paperwork and when I got to the end there was one item unaccounted for.

So I gathered up all the anti-static plastic bags and went through it from that side to see if I had it at one time. Still nothing. Then I took the box I dumped everything into as I was checking, I upended it and returned everything back into it. Still nothing. I was about to email Arrow but decided to go out for a walk first.

It was under my phone. 

I had a similar thing with some tubes of DCDC modules i got from digikey and mouser last week.
I mixed them together before counting and then came up 150 short out of 600, twice.
Was getting worried because I had no idea to know if it was digikey or mouser that was to blame.
But a 3rd recount and magically i had 600

[Psi]

Still a lot of enameled wire going cheap.

The cheap 26awg could be used for a tesla coil secondary. In fact you'd get more than two of them out of 800m.

16AWG 86.1m
$14.60 vs $110 at digikey
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/610216/cnc-tech-llc

18AWG 136.6m
$14.81 vs $111 at digikey
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/610218/cnc-tech-llc

20AWG 216.7m
$15.31 vs $111 at digikey
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/610220/cnc-tech-llc

22AWG 346.4m
$15.97 vs  $120 at digikey
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/610222/cnc-tech-llc 

24AWG 548.5m
$15.71 vs $114 at digikey
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/610224/cnc-tech-llc

26AWG 877.5m
$4.45  vs $114 at digikey
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/610226/cnc-tech-llc 

34AWG 5594.6m
$21.504 vs  $119 at digikey
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/610234/cnc-tech-llc

[scottapotamas]

Few other things I've spotted while trying to pad out a small parts order for work:

15 or 25A rated SSRs - https://www.arrow.com/en/manufacturers/tt-electronics--optek-technology/relays/solid-state-relays
Assorted low (1) stocked Panasonic SSRs going cheap - https://www.arrow.com/en/manufacturers/panasonic/relays/solid-state-relays?sortBy=calculatedPrice&sortDirection=asc
Riedon high power chassis-mount resistors - example https://www.arrow.com/en/products/search?q=BRS200&r=true
Fibre (MM LC) SFP+ transcievers for $3 - https://www.arrow.com/en/products/sfppt-sr3-01/pulse-electronics-corporation
LC fibre cables (MM) <$1 - https://www.arrow.com/en/manufacturers/assmann-wsw-components-inc/wire-and-cable/cable-assemblies/cable-assembly-fiber-optic

[Psi]

Riedon high power chassis-mount resistors - example https://www.arrow.com/en/products/search?q=BRS200&r=true

Yeah, there was also some bigger 300W version too.  Not sure if they are still there.

[wilfred]

I looked through the junk I ordered and even though this is getting old and the fashions have moved on, I thought I mention this ESP8266 board from Seeed. It has lost the touted internet cloud service apparently but as a stand alone dev board it may still have its use for only US$0.54.
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/102110037/seeed-technology-limited%3Fq
Other resources here like schematics. https://www.arrow.com/en/products/102110037/seeed-technology-limited%3Fq

There's hundreds of them available.

As far as I know they use a connector they call "grove" but it looks like a fairly generic 4 pin JST style. I will find out if those "molex" breadboard wires will fit when they arrive.

You can get a kit of sensors for $4 https://www.arrow.com/en/products/110060131/seeed-technology-limited but I don't see any of the wires listed in the parts list here https://www.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Starter-Kit-for-Seeed-Studio-BeagleBoner-Green.html

[thm_w]

Grove is 2mm JST-HY2.0.

If you have JST-PH connectors those may fit. 2.54mm pin headers won't fit very well.

https://www.omzlo.com/articles/is-the-seeed-studio-grove-connector-compatible-with-the-jst-ph-connector
https://x2robotics.ca/jst-ph-2mm-4-pin-to-female-socket-cable-200mm