Sure Electronics 0805 resistor and capacitor kit
We design around a standard list of parts, but sometimes a nasty analog circuit or bias pin requires a specific resistor or capacitor. The local electronics shop doesn’t sell 0805 or 0603, so that means a Mouser or Digikey order just to get an odd-value part.
After the last time this happened, we wised up and looked at resistor kits. There’s a bunch of different 0805 and 0603 resistor kits on eBay. We thought the 50 resistor and 32 capacitor value kit from Sure Electronic was the best deal at the time, $10 including worldwide shipping.
The eBay pictures show resistors in small bags, but they arrived in paper strips sealed in plastic. We prefer strips because we put them in plastic sheet covers and file them in binders. Watch out, the values are hand-written and almost indecipherable sometimes, test the part if it really matters.
This was a great purchase. It doesn’t cover the full E-12 range, but it should prevent lots of last-minute part orders. For $10/shipped we have lots of odd R and C values handy for prototyping, that’s just a couple bucks more than shipping on most part orders.
Do you have recommendations for an R or C kit? We’ve also seen inductor and zener diode kits, anyone have experience with those?
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Yeah, I’ve got some of those handy kits already so I’m now well packed with SMD parts. It happens however that sometimes I need odd-value through-hole capacitors and I can’t find suitable kits for those. I have already bought a kit of through-hole capacitors but the range is mostly in pF (up to 100nF is the highest value I think). Does anybody know a good kit of through-hole capacitors in the nF range? I often need some 220nF, 330nF or 680nF but don’t want to individually buy these values each and every time.
Considering I paid 2.25 for just 50 0.1uf caps (25 in 0805, 25 in 1206), that’s a hell of alot better. Hell, the ebay auction you link is crap compared to it, because it only gives 2000 resistors and 960 caps, compared to the store having 5000 resistors and 2000 caps, but it is half the price when you factor in shipping (just the kit to the US is 7.50 shipping at the cheapest)
I bought one of those kits too. I got mine in plastic bags though which were each labeled by a sticker printed by a computer. They’re wonderful to have around!
I also went on eBay and bought packs of more common values of resistor. So I would buy 500 100, 1k, 10k, 100k, etc… anything you’d need for a typical run of PCBs.