Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. We tend to prefer mouser *because* their parametric search works so well -- I've always thought it was better than Digikey's.
I think it probably comes down to getting the hang of a particular web site's parametric search. For instance, in Mouser's case, you need to make sure you select a category after entering anything in the search box, otherwise you don't get the parametric search UI. This makes sense; they can't really show the parameter selections for a random assortment of parts and equipment in an assortment of categories, because the set of parameter selection boxes would explode sideways across the page. Adapting John's Digikey example to Mouser: Type "MOSFET" in the search field, check the "stocked" box, hit submit. That gives you a list of categories. Click on the MOSFET category; that opens up the parametric search. Select TO-92, select sub-1-ohm. That gives 8 matches, all of which are available in qty 1. >From http://www.mouser.com/helppage/#nomin: "No minimum order dollar amount on products normally stocked in our warehouse." Steve On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:51 PM, John Kasunich <jmkasun...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 06:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:43:50 Jon Elson wrote: > > > > > I can't imagine why you'd buy commodity semis from a Chinese > > > source when there are great distributors like Digi-Key and > > > Mouser, that are quite happy to serve small orders. > > > > > Both of the above have minimum orders for me that are quite costly for a > > 10 pak of anything in the transistor 10 cent to 5 dollar price range. > > That and their sites search engines return what looks to me to be random > > from dice throws results. If I go searching for small hexfets I get > > 20,000 hits, none of which give me the data to make a choice > > semi-intelligently. Digikey is slightly better, but not enough to spend > > hours wading thru the selections while still hiding the important data. > > More often than not, clicking on a fine tune option, such as any case > > smaller than a to-220 returns zero results and I know that there are > > smaller versions such as could drive an ice cube relay at 12 or 24 > > volts. That can be easily put in a to-92, or even in a SMD package, so > > why can't it be found? > > I find this rather confusing. Mouser is meh, but IMHO Digikey's search > engine is simply outstanding. For example: > > I type MOSFET into the search box. It returns a list of categories. > I pick "FETS - Single". It returns a list of 39000+ parts. > I click the "In stock" box and "apply filters". List is now 17,999 parts. > Scroll over to "Mounting Type", select "Thru hole" and apply filters. > 3293 parts. > Scroll over to "Supplier Device Package" and select the four TO-92 variants > (ctrl-click for multiple selections). Apply filters, 123 parts. > Under packaging, select "Bulk" and "Cut tape", (the other variants are for > large quantities). Apply filters, down to 106. > Select 40 to 100V in the drain-to-source voltage box, down to 59. > Select all the sub-1-ohm ones in the Rds-on box, down to 7. > Put "1" in the desired quantity box. Hit the up arrow in the price column > to sort cheapest first (giving a quantity moves anything with a minimum > order larger than that quantity items to the bottom of the list). > Cheapest part is at the top of the list, MicroChip TN0604N3-G. Click > on the PDF icon in the 2nd column and I'm looking at a data sheet. > Click on the links in the 4th or 5th column and I'm looking at the > details page for that part. Add 1 to cart. Place order. There is no > minimum total order (although it sucks to spend $6 on shipping when > you are ordering a $1 part). > > It took me less time to find that part than it took to type out what I did. > > Digikey is absolutely my first stop for just about any part, both for > hobby stuff and for my day job. Like McMaster, their prices may > be a bit higher than some other sources, but usually not enough to > matter, and the search engine more than makes up for it. > > John Kasunich > > John Kasunich > jmkasun...@fastmail.fm > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. 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