RE: [sdiy] ebay resistors recommendations for values and quantity

[rdrake]

Jim,

not too bad, missing a couple that are pretty common (4.7k) and includes a lot of low and high values that you won't often need.  

one thing you'll find is that different designers tend to stick to a relatively small selection of values.  i build a lot of ken stone's stuff, for instance... i'll pull together parts lists for the next batch of 5 projects, and then order 200@ of the resistor values which brings the price per way down and leaves me with a healthy stock of the values i actually need.  

none of this planning repeals murphey's law, which states that you will always be missing at least one value of a component no matter how much stock you have... and you'll only find out on saturday after 6:00 when all the stores are closed.

bbob 

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: james at ticalun.net
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:28:14
>
>I am tired of buying resistors for my projects per
>project as I always seem
>to have piles of odd resistors but not necessarily
>the correct ones.  There
>are some good deals (even with shipping) from
>Chinese suppliers offering 1%
>lots.
>
>It ends up beings $19 after shipping for 2500
>resistors of the following
>values (50 resistors each value):
>
>2.7 ohm
>5.6ohm
>9.1 ohm
>16 ohm
>24ohm
>30 ohm
>36 ohm
>56ohm
>75ohm
>82ohm
>100 ohm
>150 ohm
>180 ohm
>220ohm
>430 ohm
>820ohm
>1kohm
>1.5 kohm
>1.8 kohm
>2.4kohm
>3.3 kohm
>3.6 kohm
>3.9 kohm
>5.1 kohm
>10 kohm
>12 kohm
>16kohm
>27kohm
>36 kohm
>43 kohm
>47 kohm
>62 kohm
>91 kohm
>100kohm
>120 kohm
>160 kohm
>180 kohm
>270 kohm
>330 kohm
>360 kohm
>430 kohm
>560 kohm
>620 kohm
>910kohm
>1.3 Mohm
>2.4 Mohm
>3 Mohm
>4.7 Mohm
>8.2Mohm
>12 Mohm
>
>My question is, is this a good selection of values
>or are these more odd
>ball values instead of useful values?	Are there
>values that there should be
>more of and what are they?  I'm not looking to make
>a life-time buy would I
>would like to purchase enough to keep me going for
>1/2 a lifetime.  The
>sellers I'm considering are auspicious.e,	
>sureelectronics, and
>apmmall.engineering.  Has anyone had any dealings
>with these folks.  Or, if
>these are sketchy, are there any others folks
>recommend.  Thanks!
>
>James R. Coplin
>
>
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