Hi If you are doing the sort of boards that started this discussion (100+ parts per board / 5 to 10 boards) a reel of bypass caps will get used up pretty fast. Shame on you if your designs don’t standardize on a bypass cap or three and about five resistors. Resistors reels of 10,000 are ~$10 so that’s $50 for your “most used” resistors. Caps in full reels of 4,000 at $16 a reel are not all that hard to find. If two of your three bypass caps are covered that way, you are up to $82 for inventory. Your third cap is likely a tantalum and it will be a bit more. Buy it in a "short reel" of some sort.
Net result (at least for the bulk of your passives) is a startup inventory cost of < $100. Compared to all the other stuff you are buying. That’s not a big deal. Bob > On Jun 25, 2016, at 2:27 AM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also how many hobbyists are going to have reels of parts? > > Reels of small resistors or caps are ballpark of $20. I'd be happy to buy > one for any part that is likely to get use multiple times on a board and > again on the next board. > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
