Mark Rages wrote:
> The transistor had "33" printed on it, so I assumed it was the 3.3V
> LDO.  Wrong assumption.

Thou shalt checketh thy datasheet before soldering!

Second commandment of electronics. Right after "Thou shalt not putteth =

thy fingers across a live AC feed."

Also, a P-touch printer (e.g. the ~=A320 PT-1010) and 6mm black-on-white =

tapes are great for labelling the black plastic tapes that SOT23s (among =

other things) are usually shipped in. Put in an 18mm tape and they work =

just as well for the little SMD component boxes you can get on =

Dealextreme and eBay.

The PC-connectable printers are far nicer though. Mainly because you can =

export your components database (if you have one) into a CSV file, tell =

the label printing software which fields to print, hit "print" and go =

have lunch. Applying the labels isn't much fun, but it beats =

hand-labelling with a Sharpie pen...

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