PicDude wrote:
> Recently had a bad experience with Jameco, so I'll avoid them if
> possible.

Could you elaborate please?  I use Jameco a lot and am generally satisfied.
I consider them the best source for lab stock parts (*), although I'm
careful about using them for production since you don't always know what
manufacturere you'll get.  In the many years I've been ordering from them, I
can only remember twice where an order got screwed up.  Both times something
I had ordered and paid for was missing, and both times they sent out the
additional parts based only on my say-so over the phone that I hadn't
received them.  In other words my experience is that they screw up rarely,
and promptly take the appropriate corrective action when they do.


* There are some notable exceptions.  Crystals and PIC come to mind
immediately.  For some reason, they have a very limited selection of
crystals for parallel resonant application, and their PIC prices are
(uncharacteristically) out of line.  Use DigiKey for the former and
buy.microchip.com for the latter unless you can buy over 1000 at a time.


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