[sdiy] Electronics Parts Search

[Seb Francis]

Doctroid wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> As I was taking a few moments to search around my usual suppliers, I felt
>> there had to be a quicker way to do this sort of thing.  So a quick bit of
>> coding later ...
>>
>> http://burnit.co.uk/sdiy/part_search.php
>>
>> It's kind of UK oriented, but I'm happy to add more suppliers if someone
>> sends me the relevant search URL (i.e. the full search URL to which I can
>> just append a search term).
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> P.S. The CA3046 seems quite widely available.
>>     
>
> Am I using it wrong? I search on "CA3046", checking off "US", and I
> get 9 tabs of which 7 say nothing found, 1 (the Farnell tab) doesn't
> even show a search, just a table of links to Farnell distributors
> (none in the US), and 1 (Nikko) shows the part available.  Not my idea
> of "widely available"!
>   

I did notice that at least one supplier cares if you put trailing 
whitespace - Futurlec returns no hits for "CA3046 " for example.  I've 
added a trim function now, so try again.

The following places stock it:
CPC
Cricklewood
Futurlec
Nikko
Mouser (stock the NTE912 equivalent)
Newark (drop ship, 10 day lead time)

Out of these, only CPC is UK only.  I would call that quite widely 
available.

Not sure what's going on with searches on "export.farnell.com" - it 
worked the other day.  I've now removed it from the US tabs as I think 
there are better places to order from in US.

Seb