I was at Jaycar yesterday. The guy I spoke to not only didn't know
where the surface mount components were, I had to explain to him what
surface mount _was_. Even then he didn't believe me until I found it
for him in the catalog.

Still I've had some good experiences at Jaycar too (different store).
I was buying some a couple of PICs and some beefy MOSFETs, some of
which were N-channel and some were P-channel. The guy says "Building
an H-bridge huh? Should I add some optocouplers for isolation?". He
was dead on. Also "Will the 8MHz internal clock on the 16f88 be enough
for you or do you want a crystal to get the full 20MHz?" Now that's
pretty amazing from an electronics shop these days!

Cheers,
Zik

On 20/05/06, Tony Smith <ajsmith@rivernet.com.au> wrote:
> > More interesting, and a little disturbing, browsing through
> > DSE's site, are the number of "Clearance product, stock is
> > limited" items. Some are going at very low prices, so I'll
> > probably help them off the shelves, but it's a worry that DSE
> > seem to be forever down-sizing the components section to make
> > room for appliances
>
>
> DSE seem to have taken a leaf out of the Radio Shack (Tandy) book,
> including the 'you've got questions, we've got blanks stares' motto.
>
> Jaycar, on the other hand, states in their latest cataogue 'we'll try to
> cut down on the crap so it doesn't overrun the component space like it
> did last year'.
>
> Interesting that the specs for job candidates at Jaycar changed
> slightly.  They used to want the usual, plus a bit of paper stating 'I
> are an engineer of some sort'.  No bit of paper needed now, knowing the
> different between a LED & a diode is enough.  (Anyway, diodes light up
> at least once).
>
> Tony
>
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