• guyrocket@kbin.social
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    And no more radio shack to buy more of these!

    I really don’t know where to go any longer for some things like this. I know, interwebs has it but I usually have questions that scamazon won’t answer.

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      1 年前

      Mouser or Digikey are your friends here.

      You pay a little more than the cheap stuff on Amazon but you can be sure you’re getting the exact specs you ordered.

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        Mouser really is to me a neat lil store. You get in, ask the guy in the counter for the exact stuff you want, they type one or two things in a computer, check if that’s actually what you want and in less than 5 minutes they fetch it

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        If it’s important… Double check the output with a meter just to be sure. Only got burned by it once, but for expensive/complex circuits, just give the critical components a sanity check.

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      A few years back, I tried shopping for a replacement one. Figured I’d go to Walmart and find one of the barrel-plug hydras that used to be everywhere.

      Just trying to explain the concept to the zygote in the electronics section was like I’d beamed down from an alien planet.

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      Thrift stores, maybe? It’s been like a decade since I’ve been inside a thrift store, so idunno if they still have these