{"id":1074,"date":"2009-01-19T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2009-01-19T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:27:01","slug":"ordering-parts-is-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/ordering-parts-is-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordering Parts is Complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When working on electronics projects I tend to order parts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mouser.com\">Mouser<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digikey.com\">Digi-Key<\/a>, with a preference given to Mouser because of their lower costs and my familiarity with their site. However, the experience I&#8217;m having right now with selecting parts for building the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amb.org\/audio\/gamma1\/\">AMB \u03b31<\/a> illustrates the complications one often runs into when ordering a large BOM.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the assumptions I must work under:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&middot; Mouser is usually cheaper than Digi-Key.<br \/>\n&middot; Mouser often has particular parts available in smaller quantities than Digi-Key does.<br \/>\n&middot; Digi-Key has a wider variety of less common parts, like (in this case) a TOSLINK receiver.<br \/>\n&middot; Digi-Key has what amounts to a $25 minimum order. Mouser has none.<br \/>\n&middot; Almost every part I need is available from Mouser, making it difficult to reach the Digi-Key minimum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, combined with a 74-line BOM, makes for quite a bit of work just selecting parts for a hobbiest device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working on electronics projects I tend to order parts from Mouser or Digi-Key, with a preference given to Mouser because of their lower costs&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/ordering-parts-is-complicated\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ordering Parts is Complicated<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}