[sdiy] Parts From Jameco...

[James Patchell]

Now...before I start...I just want to say I am not telling you not to 
purchase parts from Jameco...just be careful what you buy...

I have finally started to replace the toggle switches in my sequencer project.

http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/synthmodulesII/index.html#Logic_Module

In that piece there are 135 toggle switches...now of course...I don't like 
to spend any more money than I have to.  Toggle switches from Mouser and 
Digikey were about $2.50 each in (100s).  The same type of switch was 
available from Jameco for 50 cents...hmmm 50 cents VS 2.50....that one 
didn't seem hard...50 cents won....WRONG!

After I put in all of those switches...I discovered that some of them 
didn't work....well...I can replace them later...but as I went along...more 
began to fail until the thing became unusable.

Thanks to our own Paul S....he advised the use of NKK switches (at that 
ugly $2.50 each price)...but...now I have Zero Defects.  Cheap toggle 
switches from Jameco are now off my list...besides having to spend the 
extra money for good switches...this experience also cost me about 8 hours 
of labor to replace them.  I really should have known better (I would never 
put parts like that into anything I design at work...but then 
again...heck...I'm not paying for it....taxpayers are :-)

So far...I have never found a reason not to purchase semiconductors from 
them...but watch out...some of them are PULLs (they do not this both on 
line and in their catalog...read carefully).


         -Jim
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