[sdiy] Selecting Components

[Ingo Debus]

Am 06.09.2006 um 21:20 schrieb PLEASE-NO-CC-Roy J. Tellason:

> On Wednesday 06 September 2006 03:03 pm, Ian Fritz wrote:
>> At 12:37 PM 9/6/2006, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
>>> No they're not,  they're too damn small!  The smaller the part  
>>> the more
>>> difficulty I have with these large hands,  not to mention that it's
>>> getting harder for me to see the damn things!
>>
>> Well, no argument on that part!  Also the colors always seem  
>> unclear, so
>> you need a good strong light source to read them.
>
> Yeah,  that too...
>
> I have a magnifying glass sitting on my desk,  a slightly stronger  
> one sitting
> in the drawer,  and a stronger one yet in a bag in there,  plus one  
> of those
> illuminated magnifying lamps handy.

I don't quite understand... are you talking SMD or leaded parts?
I find that for leaded resistors the size of the body doesn't matter  
that much, I grab them by the leads anyway.

Yes, colors of metal film resistors are often difficult to read, but  
I got a DMM with a nice big display :-)

Ingo