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Joined: 20/06/2011
Location: AustraliaPosts: 2979
| Posted: 03:44am 15 Aug 2020 |
Hi Paul,
The object is NOT to buy cheap it is to determine exactly what you will get for your money.
It is very confusing, for instance this listing from Mouser.
Mouser DS18B20
Includes 2 pages of offerings for DS18B20,
'Manufacturers' include many different sources.
For example
Seeed Studio
Maxim
Adafruit
Sparkfun
DFRobot
ANAVI Technology
DLP Design..
Then Mouser has a fairly expensive freight cost To AUS unless you spend $60 which I do when I buy from them.
Mind you I really like Mouser I get my parts usually 3-4 days after I order which is fantastic coming from the `REAL' antipodes.
Here in Aus we really are stuck with RS Components (great to deal with and free freight no matter order QTY), but often have to buy in bags of 5, 10 or more.
Element14 which offers free freight over I think $50.
Both the above are generally (not always) expensive prices and I have found recently that even though they say a qty is in stock, often they are placed on back order which could be 2-3 months away.
Then there are Jaycar and Altronics who whilst cheaper have a very limited repertoire of stock but they are generally in range of almost everywhere, if you are in the cities.
Then there is really only a smattering of other suppliers with the stuff we tinker around with and mostly do not stock much at all.
Kind Regards
Mick