@azonenberg I buy 6 figures from #DigiKey annually. Not a fan of the QFN but we use them. Recently made a commitment to Renesas parts that are QFN. We design and load our own boards. Not doing BGA.

That said I really miss the yellow TI logic datasheet books from the 70s. Those were like the Sears catalog for me back in the day. Must be a collectors thing now. Would love to have those on my bookshelf. Daydreaming...

Need to do a lot more of that these days, eh?

Yes, you take your chances - there's the occasional outright scam, or so-so quality parts (like the ones that inspired me to write this), but you go into it with your eyes open. You take a chance because it's dirt cheap.

And 90% of the time, the parts are just fine.

For anything important, or safety-related, or mains-connected, or anything I build for other than personal use, I won't use yum-cha parts like this. For those, I order good name-brand parts from a reputable supplier (Newark/Element14/RS, DigiKey, etc).

But for hobbyists just having fun, messing around? AliExpress and friends are an absolute godsend. You can now get into hobby electronics for practically nothing, and build stuff and see if you like it.

There's a place for quality parts, and a place for cheap parts. Knowing which is which isn't hard.

Three cheers for cheap components!

2/2

Supposedly, they have been having problems with prepaid orders for months now and process them manually. But they don't have the needed capacity to process all orders. So I now wait until they have enough capacity. The rep couldn't tell me when that'll be. Why didn't they tell me on the ordering page: "We're experiencing problems, bank transfer may take way longer than you'd expect".

Thanks #DigiKey, this lack of communication didn't make it better at all.

@cd0 Wow. What a horrible approach of #Digikey. If I have a #proxy, does that solve the problem ? Can I then leave all their tracker crap on and not care less? Or do I need a "quarantined" web session that I then toast? Or use #tails ? Or have I not understood? Why is this so hard? It is like when u go to a shop for cheese they say "No cheese unless you tell me the contents of your fridge and pantry". #adblockers #trackers

@poleguy thanks to the amazing people at #digikey we now know it’s NCP6324, NCV6324, NCV6324BMTAATBG.

#asusTinkerBoard #sbc #sbcrepair #electronics #electronic #electronicsrepair

https://forum.digikey.com/t/part-identification/48242/19

Meanwhile the Brazilian River chuckles merrily in the background having got its WaveShare at the SeaGate two weeks ago.

Fin.

Apologies to both #Mouser and #DigiKey for casting nasturtiums on their moral character in this narrative!

@todbot
Like @amcewen, I start with #Samtec for something like that. They'll overnight a good number of free samples, and the parts are available on #Digikey. What about TSW and SSW?
https://www.samtec.com/products/tsw
https://www.samtec.com/products/ssw

@Stinson_108 I live in #WI, so I can get the cheap shipping and have parts from #Digikey in two days.