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What factors affect component pricing for seemingly identical passive parts?
A 10uF component on our BOM is obsolete and I'm going to pick a substitute. I have to admit, I'm a bit confused at the pricing. Supplier Part Number Unit Price Description Tolerance Op Temp Price 478-...
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Pure Sine Inverters and Transformer Selection
So I'm trying to design a 24V to 110V pure sine wave inverter, which I'd like to be able to do 2000W to handle running my portable A/C on battery. I get the whole H-Bridge MOSFET concept, and even ...
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Resistance dependent pricing for resistors
Does anybody know of any reasons that the 560 Ohm resistor is so much cheaper than the other values? It does not appear to be a trend of price increasing or decreasing with resistance since there are ...
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Any advantage in AC-DC or DC-DC with past, large form factor semiconductors?
I want to clarify this question with my real-world example: Say you have a device which contains some AC-DC converter (or DC-DC) for rather high power specs (10 kW up to 300 kW, not in the same ...
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How to evaluate the reliability of a PCB-printing service?
I had a talk with a friend the other day who told me that he had many issues with PCB-manufacturers in China (copying his product, long delivery times, bad quality) and that he had to sell his company ...
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IC Price Discrepancies (General Information) [closed]
Looking for some insight into what drives IC price discrepancies across suppliers. Espcially comparing places like digikey and mouser to aliexpress For example: I'm looking into buying Maxim ...
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The current state of UVC LED technology
I saw this kickstarter for a self cleaning water bottle. It's a pretty good idea, and is physically plausible, but I'm a bit skeptical about their UVC LED. UVC LEDs do exist (and they have a picture ...
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How is it possible for ICs to be so cheap? [closed]
I was looking at a selection of sensors on Digi-Key and I notices that while there are definitely a lot of expensive ones, there's also plenty of really cheap ones. For example, there's a gyroscope ...
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Building your own camera module [closed]
I would like to know how difficult it is to build your own camera module. For instance, how difficult would it be to assemble the Raspberry Pi camera module from scratch? The reason I'm interested ...
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Why Cadence not revealing their prices for their software product? [closed]
I contacted the Cadence office as a PhD student and also a faculty member to inquiry their price for an academic license. After 8 emails back and forth I noticed that they are not willing to answer ...
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What features give reason for such a wide range of prices for digital multi-meters?
Ever since high school, I've been using the same multi-meter. It works well for low voltage purposes, but I'm scared to use it for anything else (high voltage, unless it's a little zap from an ...
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Why are some products not priced openly? [closed]
OK - maybe this is meta, so feel free to move it. I am looking for a 100 Ohm precision calibration standard. Seems a number of companies do them but all (so far) have a "Call for price". Why? Why can'...
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How are some modules priced ridiculously low?
I am planning on carrying out a design using the CP2102 Interface IC. The cheapest price I can source (for bulk purchase of 1500 parts) is from Digikey at 2.34$/piece. A price of 2.34$ is ...
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Less expensive galvanometers (or alternatives)
I am working on prototyping a product and the ideal solution, from similar designs, seems to be using galvanometers, specifically mirror galvanometers. In doing my research the majority of ...
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Why are SMT electrolyic capacitors so much more expensive than their through-hole counterparts?
I noticed recently that there's a large discrepancy in price between electrolytic caps that are surface mount and those that are through-hole, particularly at higher working voltages. Here's a good ...