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Digikey is sadly very expensive. It’s good for prototype. Or expensive industrial equipment. But for consumer goods one needs to go to China and source really c
by lnsru 2y ago
Digikey is sadly very expensive. It’s good for prototype. Or expensive industrial equipment. But for consumer goods one needs to go to China and source really cheap components optimized for large volume manufacturing.
- tonyarkles 2y agoAs a first cut, here's two ideas: - AliExpress/Alibaba/Taobao instead of Digikey - tear down a mass produced product that has approximately the right size of part that you're looking for and see what you can find. If you're super lucky there'll be a generic part number on the item that you can use to do some research with. If you're less lucky, take some measurements (dimensions, RPM, torque, voltage, current, wavelength, whatever) and start looking around to see if there are manufacturers making generic versions of that part.
- nrclark 2y agoThat's true, but grandparent's advice is a good way to pick standardized parts. If there are 4 versions of a switch with identical footprint on digikey, you can be pretty sure that you'll also be able to source it from Taobao or LCSC or something.