[sdiy] 1/4W 1% film resistors.

[The Peasant]

Well, I still haven't found my magical resistor source yet. The best that I 
have discovered so far is Opamp Electronics (www.opamp-electronics.com), the 
same people that are responsible for the eBay auction that I posted earlier. 
They have them for $.99/100, unfortunately they dont have the complete E96 
series available, so there are still a few values that I need. I did purchase a 
bunch of other parts from them as well, and I am quite happy with their 
service, so I don't hesitate to recommend them.

As far as a group order goes, I would probably not be the best one to handle 
this, as I only need a few values myself and I am located in Canada, so the 
logistics would kinda suck. However, if a good cheap supplier were to be found 
I still would be willing to do this.

For which values to choose, I would assume that the preference would be for the 
closest values (in 1% E96) to the E12 series and maybe expanding to the E24 
series as well. There is a chart of these values here:
<http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/attachment.php?
s=&postid=407597&stamp=1086175020>

Of course there would be a much higher demand for the most common values: 1, 
10, 100, etc..., so more of those could be purchased.

So when do the suppliers start blowing out their non-lead-free parts for cheap? 
It's too bad that all those cool OTAs were discontinued before this, it would 
be nice to find them at a heavily discounted price as well.

Take care 
Doug
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