I just let Digikey hold my inventory for me.If I want to find something I need to order it when it arrives I find the one that I all ready had.
I just let Digikey hold my inventory for me.If I want to find something I need to order it when it arrives I find the one that I all ready had.
The real hassle is suppliers minimum order charges, whenever I ordered from farnell I had to think of things to add on to make up the amount.That's what I'm trying to avoid. Been there, done that... bought too much
I had the same happening to me, with Mouser. 4 x AA batteryholder for a lifetime.The real hassle is suppliers minimum order charges, whenever I ordered from farnell I had to think of things to add on to make up the amount.
I have various instruments that use the tiny A23 keyfob batteries - it was the only thing I could think of when making up an order - now I have too many!
Now we're talking!Just cut up some fine corrugated cardboard into strips and fold over the bottom inch and glue, write on the value and then push the leads of the components into the corrugations.
I can get about 20 resistors into one card and I would like to say my stock control is such that I never get above that but for some very common values (e.g. 1k, 10k resistors) I have bought packs of 100 so I just have the spares in bags in a box but then I have to remember that I have the spares...Nice. What do you do when your quantities run into tens or hundreds?
The diversity of shapes and sizes for electronic components means you have to comparmentalise in a flexible way.I can get about 20 resistors into one card and I would like to say my stock control is such that I never get above that but for some very common values (e.g. 1k, 10k resistors) I have bought packs of 100 so I just have the spares in bags in a box but then I have to remember that I have the spares...
...no system is perfect!
Once I remove parts from stock for prototyping I seldom put them back. I have containers on the bench for these parts.I'm donig an invenory list in OpenOffice. To get an idea of what I have. I will not keep track of quantity, taking components in and out of projects.
Another thing I have that bothers me a bit, is when I'm breadboarding a circuit that involves resistors. I'm not good at putting the resistors back. It is piling up...
How big containers?Once I remove parts from stock for prototyping I seldom put them back. I have containers on the bench for these parts.
After organizing some of my parts using the same kind of boxes, I can find them really fast.How big containers?
I do have some small jars, that I intend to use for that. But often all resistors ends up in one. Without any kind of system...
The resistors are in 4" by 6" by 3" deep drawers. I have a drawer for each multiplier band (decade) of resistors: black, brown, red, orange, yellow and green. Resistors less than 10 ohms go into the black-band drawer and resistors greater than 999K go into the green-band drawer. I also have drawers for capacitors, diodes, transistors, IC's, and miscellaneous parts. The transistors are in small antistatic boxes that fit into the drawer. The IC's are pressed into anti-static foam and then layered in the drawer.How big containers?
I do have some small jars, that I intend to use for that. But often all resistors ends up in one. Without any kind of system...
Years ago I bought 0.6W precision film resistors in lots of 10, they weren't cheap so I also bought a couple of experimenters packs containing 10 each value of 5% resistors - but I still harvest resistors from scrap boards because thru-hole parts are drying up fast.I don't try to save resistors anymore. I buy the stock values on the little tapes to get a price break and store those in groups. If I have 1 left I toss it. I never seem to have all the parts for a project so I just add the little ones (low cost ones) to the order so I don't have to search them out and have all the parts in one place for the project. (the box they came in.) The stored ones are for emergency use.
I used these years ago but they arent stackable, at least not very well, and if they are all different size, its messy too.Nice!
I have a bunch of 2l squared ice buckets. Some as big as 5l. (In the 5l it was Rum and Raisins ice. The best ice ever!) In the small I currently have SMD's and in the big, I got modules. Like Ultrasound modules, USB to RS232 and so on.
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