[sdiy] Through-Hole MLCC capacitors

[Mattias Rickardsson]

>> From: rsdio at audiobanshee.com [mailto:rsdio at audiobanshee.com]
>> ...
>> Kits are irrelevant when a company like Mouser will put any
>> number of components into a bag labeled with your own
>> customer part number. If you want to make a kit, just sign up
>> for an account with Mouser and create a Saved Project. This
>> will allow you to enter a "Customer Part #" for each item,
>> and you can share your kit with others or order it again very easily.

Some problems I've encountered with this is (iirc) that you can't give
a name ("Customer Part #") to a component until you have put it in a
project or a cart, and that a component can only have one name (which
might become clumsy when using it for many projects perhaps), and also
that you cannot search for the named components - only find them in
your projects of carts. Does it even exist outside a project, as a
general component metadata? Yes, it magically appears next time you
put a component in a cart. In the end I've only used the "Customer
Part #" as some kind of stupid notes when ordering the components of a
project, and then becoming annoyed when it turns up with an irrelevant
name in other carts some year later... but that's not really the point
of a part number, is it?
Btw there is also something similar called "My Notes" on every product
page, but it doesn't seem to be searchable either.
Or did I misunderstand how to use it all? :-)

/mr