We use HC-49/US surface mount crystals whenever possible. HC-49/US is like a through-hole metal can crystal, but with surface mount pads. They’re about $0.50 in 1s, while the smaller bar-type SMD crystals start at $1.
Brian found a new line of crystals at mouser that’s about a quarter cheaper:
I use an ABM7 XTAL on Eridani. I noticed there is now ABM2 which are slightly bigger but cost about [$0.79]. Might be of use to you for a size/price tradeoff.
EG: ABM2-16.000MHZ-D4Y-T ABRACON Crystals
On caps I too prefer to use ceramic whenever possible at least up to 10 uF. Normally electrolytic (Al) for anything above that.
It will probably fit our standard SMD crystal footprint, we were pretty generous with the footprint spacing. The ABM2 is added to the partlist. Thanks Brian!
Via the comments.
From Twitter:
@bricotienda Tienda BricoGeek.com
@dangerousproto cheaper cristals also mean poor and not accurate ;)
@bricotienda Good point, but we can live with that 10ppm tolerance difference in 99.99% of the stuff we do. Stability is the same.
Even cheaper @ $0.41 each or $0.24 in 100-quant.
ABRACON/ABLS-16000MHZ-B4-T
Curious. The post mentions the ABM2 is $0.79. For me, the Mouser page says $0.69. Even better I guess!