Saturday 25 July 2015

Where to find components for your projects - Shopping Carts

One of the most tedious tasks when module building is sourcing components.
Months later you've forgotten where you bought that SMD resistor, or the 9mm PCB mounted pot.
So to keep frustration levels as low as possible, here is a list of where to begin the search.

I'll try to keep this page updated with manufacturer links.
Please contact me if you have some better sources.
Cheers, happy hunting,
Jono

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Resistors
SMD (Mouser)
SMD chip (Tayda)
Through Hole (Mouser)
1/4W carbon through hole (Tayda)
General fixed value -- SMD & Through hole (Element14)

Capacitors
Ceramic Disc (Mouser)
Ceramic Disc (Tayda)
Film (Mouser) 
Polyester Mylar Film (Tayda)
Tantalum  (Mouser) 
Electrolytic (Mouser)
Electrolytic (Tayda)
Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors MLCC - SMD/SMT (Mouser)
SMD ceramic chip (Tayda)
General Caps (Element14)

Capacitor Conversion Chart

Potentiometers
General (Mouser)
General (Tayda)
Sliders (great for your ARP 2600, etc)- (Mouser)
Trimmers - SMD - (Mouser)
Trimmer - Through Hole  (Mouser)
Linear Through Hole (Tayda)
Log Through Hole (Tayda)
General Pots (Element14)
General pots (Mammoth)

Semi-Conductors
Op-Amps (Mouser)
Op-Amps (Tayda)
IC (general)  (Mouser)
IC - CMOS 4000 Series (Tadya)
Diodes, Rectifiers, etc (Mouser)
Diodes - Standard (Tayda)
Diodes - Zener (Tayda)
Transistors (Mouser)
Tramsistors - General (Tayda)
Tramsistors - 2N series (Tayda)
Tramsistors - BC series (Tayda)
LEDs - Standard - Through hole. (Mouser)
LEDs (Tayda)

Lamps (incandesent lamps)
General - (Element14)

Phone connectors / Jacks
General  (Mouser)  
Buchla Tiny Jacks (Mouser)
3.5mm plugs & jacks (Tayda)
6.35mm - 1/4" plugs & jacks (Tayda)
Banana Jacks for your Serge & Buchla - Cinch & Pomona (Mouser)

Power connectors:  Buchla EDAC 587-306-50-010 (Mouser)  
Power Supplies: Linear (Mouser) 
DC power sockets & jacks (Tayda)
DC/DC converters (isolated) (Mouser)

Switches
Toggle (Mouser)
Toggle (Tayda)
Slide (Mouser)
Slide  (Tayda)
Rotary (Mouser)  
Push Button (Mouser)  
DIP (Mouser)
*** SPST, SPDT, DPDT switches demistified *****

Inductors
General (Tayda)
General - Fixed. (Mouser)

Knobs - General (Tayda)

Headers
General Pin (Tayda)
General (Mouser)

General links 

These companies should have most of what you'll ever need. 
And there is always Ebay. 

Mouser
Tayda
SmallBear
Thonk
Element14 (free postage over $45 AUD)
RS-Online
Bitsbox
Mammoth

+List of integrated circuit dimensions
+Surface Mount Nomenclature & Packaging.
+SOT (Small Outline Transistor dimensions)
+Voltage divider, LED resistor calculator 


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