Getting electronic components

[John S]

Only if you have an account.... I believe (but i could be wrong, not checked) if you don't its minimum £4.95.

OK that makes sense.

[Ross77]

Cheers everyone. Thats a real help. I new someone on here would Know

Looks like Farnell is the winner then. Being able to get everything from one place definetley saves in the long run. If you have to order from 3 or 4 places, the postage soon adds up.

Ok then. Im off to place an order......
Thanks again

[Ross77]

AHHGGGG. Just spent the best part of an hour selecting parts and then when I finally make it to the invoice page the site crashes......"Closed for essential maintainence" apparently. So I'm not going to get those parts for the weekend now

[irving2008]

AHHGGGG. Just spent the best part of an hour selecting parts and then when I finally make it to the invoice page the site crashes......"Closed for essential maintainence" apparently. So I'm not going to get those parts for the weekend now

unusual for it be down now... well you may be lucky, depends on the size of the parcel... I have ordered at 7pm and they've come next day, or 9am and its taken 2 days - they guarantee same day dispatch if ordered by 8pm but they cant control the post office unless you pay for expidited delivery.

Strangely the parts ordered at 1:30am always seem to take longer to come than the ones ordered at 8am!

[Ross77]

If you're talking about Farnell, then they tend to have a habit of doing essential maintenance at about this time in the evening.

However, I think you should still have your shopping cart present when it's back up and running.

But I'm a little perplexed why you don't think you'll get them until after the weekend? They're normally next day, and you need to order by 8pm for any chance for that to happen (although I don't trust it on a Thursday, and I like to get my order in by 5:30 just in case [and 7pm on other days]).

Phew just tried again and as you said it remembered the cart. With regard to the postage time, I live out in the sticks so its usually takes an extra day. So If I couldnt place the order until late tommorow night it then it wouldnd have got processed till thursday, in which case it would probably be monday delivery. Hopefully I should get it friday now

Forgot about the dreaded VAT tho. Its suprising how the price builds up. I was only ordering 20p/50p parts, but then there are min quanties for some bits or multiples of 5 etc. £40 order in total, Would have been cheaper to to order one of Roys kits......:heehee:

[irving2008]

Phew just tried again and as you said it remembered the cart. With regard to the postage time, I live out in the sticks so its usually takes an extra day. So If I couldnt place the order until late tommorow night it then it wouldnd have got processed till thursday, in which case it would probably be monday delivery. Hopefully I should get it friday now

Forgot about the dreaded VAT tho. Its suprising how the price builds up. I was only ordering 20p/50p parts, but then there are min quanties for some bits or multiples of 5 etc. £40 order in total, Would have been cheaper to to order one of Roys kits......:heehee:

but the bits always come in handy! oh well, off to order some TO220 heatsinks... the 317 regs on these PMINMO boards get a mite hot at 2W with no heatsink

[Ross77]

but the bits always come in handy!

They sure do. should have to enougth to build 10 boards. £15 of that was for a logic probe.

the 317 regs on these PMINMO boards get a mite hot at 2W with no heatsink

Do you not need one on the output chip as well? How are the PMINMO boards? I nearly bought a couple the other day, but I really wanted something with the dual output chips to get 4amps, dont like running things at max power.......