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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
bombledmonk:
--- Quote from: floobydust on November 30, 2020, 06:57:15 pm ---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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For what it's worth, the dash means one of two things.
The specific parameter wasn't available when the part was laded (maybe it wasn't in the datasheet at all, isn't applicable, or the datasheet wasn't available) or the part's just haven't made it all the way through the queue of getting their information added.
--- Quote from: floobydust on November 30, 2020, 06:57:15 pm ---They could add a mouseover or explanation for these odd parameters.
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noted
floobydust:
I've seen a dash, star and blank in the parameter lists. It's silly because why would I search for parts with incomplete or late data coming in? Who is going to click on that, really.
What's the star mean?
bombledmonk:
The dash does have a poweruser use case. If you are unsure of whether a parameter in a specific column is filled in or not, you can include the dash along with any other parameters of your choice to keep from improperly eliminating parts that may not have that single parameter filled in. Since filling out data isn't a perfect science it gives people an option to be overinclusive rather than having no way to include those thousands of dashed products in the results. It sounds silly, but it really does get used this way.
The series should be the only place you should see asterisk today. It's a holdover from when there were separate placeholders for "data not filled in yet" (*) and "parameter doesn't exist" (-). I believe it's still there in Series due to some legacy system limitations.
Having those placeholders at the top with no explanation is definitely a less than ideal experience, it's been hanging around on a list of cleanup tasks for a while.
floobydust:
Why do prices have so many trailing zeros? You don't have that many significant digits anyhow.
If the price is below a dollar, or below $0.10 THEN add the sig digits (just like Mouser) as necessary.
Customers looking at micropennies? Seriously? This kind of stuff makes the website look like it was put together carelessly.
cortex_m0:
One thing I noticed at work today: the part number search is now fuzzy. If I type in a part number that has a TI prefix (SN74), I explicitly do not want you to try and show me related/similar parts. I want parts that contain that string of characters only.
For example, if you type in SN74LVC1G07 for a SINGLE buffer, I get results including SN74LVC2G07 for a DUAL buffer and also SN74LVC3G07 TRIPLE buffers.
Or you type ATSAM4S into search, and the results include ATSAM3S MCUs in the results! |O
I can't find a rhyme or reason. Spent a while putting in partial resistor part numbers, and can't reproduce such problems in that category. I was a bit surprised to read through this thread without seeing other complaints about this...
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