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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
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Mark19960:

--- Quote from: tooki on November 26, 2020, 04:22:54 pm ---Regarding it losing your whole cart: any chance you accidentally made a new cart? DK lets you save and change between carts, and if you use some features (like adding a BOM to your cart) it offers to put it into a new cart by default. (The old one is saved and can be accessed from the cart manager.) But at first glance one will think the old cart was obliterated.

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Good thought mate but I checked that.
I have had Digi-Key munch the basket before. It's been a very long time since it has happened last.
It may be a coincidence that they have been working on these other bits and bobs and my basket was emptied.
floobydust:
OMG I was able to search aluminium electrolytic capacitors and the website did not make me scream in frustration.  :) Hurrah, there is hope - the site is improving.
But 2,611 incorrectly have polarization specified as a "-", instead of "Polar" or Bi-polar". WTF is a "-" anyhow.
Then I found Kemet motor start caps "general purpose" and "polar". Sigh. And the usual Kemet website "You don't have permission to access /component-edge/download/datasheet/040MS22AAMK1STD.pdf on this server". Mouser has the datasheet, 3D models and stock...

Film capacitors are still awkward - you still can't specify a voltage range. Click click click click click click click click click click. Unlike electrolytics where you can say ">100V".
tooki:
When metadata is wrong, report it. I’ve found that about 80% of the time they’ll fix it right away. (Sometimes, they defer to the manufacturer description, even if the manufacturer uses nonstandard terminology, which is infuriating. But still, 80% is better than nothing.) They always, always respond, which puts them ahead of most companies...
james_s:

--- Quote from: floobydust on November 29, 2020, 07:29:08 am ---Film capacitors are still awkward - you still can't specify a voltage range. Click click click click click click click click click click. Unlike electrolytics where you can say ">100V".

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Can't you click, scroll then shift-click to select a range?

Even so it's still cumbersome, and that's the case with a lot of parts. I'd like to be able to select max and/or min thresholds on virtually any metric. It's especially annoying when the sort order is screwy.
floobydust:
This is the dumbness - no voltage range or simple top limit for film capacitors, and other parts. But they have it for electrolytics.


--- Quote from: tooki on November 29, 2020, 02:09:38 pm ---When metadata is wrong, report it.
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Yes I report the few parts that are wrong in the database whenever I run into it, and only a few arguments so far.

But, over dud parameters like asking why thousands of parts have a polarity spec of "-" or " " is like asking support and hearing "have you tried another browser?".
They could add a mouseover or explanation for these odd parameters.
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