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3 weeks? You would have gotten them faster directly from China and probably for a lot cheaper. The only reason for me to order from a US based company is faste
by Osiris 3y ago
3 weeks? You would have gotten them faster directly from China and probably for a lot cheaper.
The only reason for me to order from a US based company is faster shipping.
- konschubert 3y agoWhat's the best place to order form china?
- fest 3y agolcsc.com. But keep in mind that their prices for Western companies ICs is often worse than DigiKey/Mouser. The passives and connectors are a lot cheaper.
- fpgaminer 3y agoI agree, the few times I've used LCSC it's been a perfectly fine experience. But LCSC parametric search is worse, and their product photos and data are often wrong. Mouser/etc have decent parametric search which, for me, makes them the best place to find parts. LCSC has so much garbage data, a bad UI, multiple languages, etc. When I need a cheap, china specific part I usually just have to resort to manually searching through the 1,000 or so parts by hand. About as much fun as one imagines. And then their website starts throttling you for opening too many PDFs. SMH.
- fest 3y agoFor certain parts, https://github.com/yaqwsx/jlcparts https://github.com/yaqwsx/jlcparts can be useful to find what you need quicker.
- CamperBob2 3y agoHonestly? Amazon.
- themodelplumber 3y ago> The only reason for me to order from a US based company is faster shipping. You don't see any service and support benefits? Component QA benefits? (Relevant to your comment and general experience, not so much the specific company in the post...)
- tomatocracy 3y agoDepending what you're ordering, in my experience Chinese sellers on AliExpress can have issues with counterfeits or with chips obviously removed from old boards being sold as "new". If I want to ensure genuine parts I'll go to Farnell, RS, Mouser, or DigiKey.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoYes, holy shit. Empty IC shells are super common in counterfeits. If they aren't counterfeit then QC is a nightmare, if you need consistency and spot-on values, they're dire.
- JohnFen 3y ago> The only reason for me to order from a US based company is faster shipping. The primary reason I will always prefer to buy electronic parts from Digi-key (or similar) or directly from the manufacturer is that I'm substantially less likely to get counterfeits.