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Old 10th Apr 2019, 7:26 am   #3
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Default Re: Component Suppliers

There are the big three - Farnell/CPC do most components in ones or two's, but CPC often sends incomplete orders with components arriving months later and you need to spend £20 ex VAT at Farnell to get free postage. there is a similar handling fee at CPC. The other big dealers are Digikey and Mouser, but stock comes from the states, however delivery is fast from Digikey - next day, free postage on orders over £30. Never ordered from Mouser.

Then there's Rapid who are pretty good, but for one off bits Ebay is pretty good, but stuff costs more (and some stuff is counterfit), after all most vendors get their components from the big three, then bung their cut on top. Still, sometimes if you want a couple of 5w resistors say, in a rush Ebay is pretty good.

Andy.
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