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>Also it is rather priceous (around 2€) What is it with electrical engineers and an absolutely out-of-whack sense of "expensive"?
by hoseja 4y ago
>Also it is rather priceous (around 2€)
What is it with electrical engineers and an absolutely out-of-whack sense of "expensive"?
- zgs 4y agoWhen you are designing for runs of 50k - 1000k units, this is expensive.
- hoseja 4y agoBut clearly the author of the article is not.
- linkdink 4y agoThe SMD is 2€ through the big parts distributor where he can get all the other parts, and pay for shipping just once. But he wants DIP, which he said they don't have in stock. So now he pays extra for DIP, extra for rarity, and again for shipping from another seller. It costs probably more like 10€ at this point. Why pay 5x when you can pay 0.5x? You don't want to waste money like that on multiple parts in each project, across multiple projects each year.