Where i work there is talk of a worldwide shortage of chip capacitors. Anybody else heard of this ?
Yes. Every build I have done in the past 3-4 months has had multiple components out of stock at all distributors.
I don't mind if something is out of stock, however, it seems more that these guys are not in control of their stock inventory if over 40% of items are quoted with wrong stock availability.
I have had such horrible service from Farnell that I wouldn't be too surprised to find out they do this on purpose. It would be kinda fraudulent (called bait-and-switch), but would make sense a lot: it's a compelling factor that they seem to have better stock than their competitors, and once you have ordered, you are already "locked in" and are very unlikely to cancel your order - or even cancel the backordered items!
Since I prefer fair play, customer service, and responsive, working website, I have gone with Digikey as my preferred distributor, and have not looked back. Mouser seems to work as well without these kind of issues.
Quick search on ebay for 100nF caps returned only one auction...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/100nf-ceramic-capacitor-RARE-Price-reduced/302711136546?hash=item467afd6122:g:6xwAAOSwkVxa2d~E
Unobtainium!
I guess I will have to connect two 56nF in parallel then...
Mouser seems to work as well without these kind of issues.
Quick search on ebay for 100nF caps returned only one auction...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/100nf-ceramic-capacitor-RARE-Price-reduced/302711136546?hash=item467afd6122:g:6xwAAOSwkVxa2d~E
Unobtainium!
I guess I will have to connect two 56nF in parallel then...
Is this a joke?
https://www.digikey.ca/products/en/capacitors/ceramic-capacitors/60?k=0.1uf&k=&pkeyword=0.1uf&pv7=2&pv1989=0&FV=ffe0003c&quantity=0&ColumnSort=0&page=1&stock=1&pageSize=25
12 parts in total, prices range from $0.14 to $1.10 CAD, each.
Quick search on ebay for 100nF caps returned only one auction...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/100nf-ceramic-capacitor-RARE-Price-reduced/302711136546?hash=item467afd6122:g:6xwAAOSwkVxa2d~E
Unobtainium!
I guess I will have to connect two 56nF in parallel then...
Is this a joke?
https://www.digikey.ca/products/en/capacitors/ceramic-capacitors/60?k=0.1uf&k=&pkeyword=0.1uf&pv7=2&pv1989=0&FV=ffe0003c&quantity=0&ColumnSort=0&page=1&stock=1&pageSize=25
You've picked any dielectric, any size, any voltage. Now try 100nF, X7R and 0603, any voltage.
https://www.digikey.ca/products/en/capacitors/ceramic-capacitors/60?k=0.1uf&k=&pkeyword=0.1uf&pv17=5&pv17=466&pv17=416&pv16=5&FV=ffe0003c%2C1c0002%2C1f140000&quantity=0&ColumnSort=0&page=1&stock=1&pageSize=25
12 parts in total, prices range from $0.14 to $1.10 CAD, each.
If it's for decoupling then what about a Samsung .22uF, 16V X7R? Digikey claim a stock of 812,000 and they are only $.00863.
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/samsung-electro-mechanics/CL10B224KO8NNNC/1276-1112-2-ND/3886770
They also have 262,000 similar Yaego parts @ $.00993
For passive these guys are pretty decent and they will deliver fast and cheap, 7.7 million in stock
https://lcsc.com/product-detail/Multilayer-Ceramic-Capacitors-MLCC-SMD-SMT_100nF-104-10-50V_C14663.html
@grouchobyte
Actual value is less than 10% of that.
Just received a shipment I placed on Farnells for 14 different items. 6 are put on backorder and I only received 8... Argh! I painstakingly chose the components based on reported stock availability. This stuff is killing me.
I'm missing 1Gohm and 1 ohm resistors, Dual matched NPN's in the BC847 flavor, DPDT Switches and SP3T slide Switches, Miniature integrated DC-DC modules. So nothing really special.
I don't mind if something is out of stock, however, it seems more that these guys are not in control of their stock inventory if over 40% of items are quoted with wrong stock availability.
Silly thing is, I built the order on mouser, they reported some components missing on the web so I checked on farnell's and as these were reported in stock (chose ones with in 100's or 1000's in stock), placed the order there. Initially I thought these mouser guys were not on top of the game by not having fairly common items but now it looks more like Mouser guys are in control of their stock so you know what you get or don't get.
I win! By 4-8 fold...
https://www.ttiinc.com/content/ttiinc/en/apps/part-detail.html?mfgShortname=KEM&partsNumber=C0603C104M5RACTU&utm=704
£14.70 for 4k. Over 300k in stock...Holy shit, since I posted this yesterday, someone purchased over 140k pieces!!!