Well I'm not technically a newbie, but I forgot a lot of this stuff so :P
Basically I was reading up on what are good general components to get, and I've made a cart with Jameco electronics (the easiest site for me to understand their ordering process).
What do you all think? Is this a good selection? (Note: the resistor assortment bag goes from 10 to 5.6m Ohms. I would assume this includes the K range of ohms, right?)
No matter how much you stock up there’s always something your missing for the next project… The main thing to do is learn to be happy with side projects you do have parts for while your waiting for the missing parts for your current project.
I’m short on caps. I see resistor assortments all over the place, but have yet to find comparable packs of capacitors. When I was still working on electronics for a living, all I had to contend with were electrolytics and ceramics. Now there’s all kinds! I’m finding them confusing.
That’s right! Every little bit helps. I saw a 3000 Farad capacitor for sale on ebay yesterday. When I was in tron school, the instructors always explained that the larger the capacitance, the larger the physical size would be.
A 100 Farad cap then would have been as big as a large trashcan. That 3000 Farad monster was about the size of a large can of Red Bull or Starbucks coffee. Since they use them in cars for power storage, I started thinking about how great that would be to use for an long running mobile arduino project.
I’m actually selling two huge electrolytic capacitors on ebay right now, a 40,000uF cap and a 10,000 cap. 50 and 100vdc rated. If anyone’s interested ^_^.
Hi everybody, i’m about to start building my first robot and wanted to build some stock of basic components such as leds, capacitors and resistors. Now i see there are a lot of different resistor materials, it seems to me that most standard carbon 5% resistors are sufficient for most projects, is it usefull to look at other assortments of more precise resistors?
I see resistor assortments all over the place, but have yet to find comparable packs of capacitors. When I was still working on electronics for a living, all I had to contend with were electrolytics and ceramics.
