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| Posted: 05:53am 13 Mar 2024 |
Digikey has 664 of the K78U12-500R3 (straight pin) in stock they also have the 70 of the K78U12-1000R3, 1A version. I do agree that to straighten the pins on a right angle version is probably easy too if required.
I would expect builders to try to consolidate to 2 or 3 suppliers ie Digikey, LCSC, Farnell and as much as possible juggle around to take advantage of their $50/60 value for free delivery (not LCSC - no free delivery with them).
I expect that Capacitors etc will probably be needed for the Cap board so hitting the Digikey min for free delivery is easy. BTW I have found that with Digikey if you need to spend $59 on parts, you would need to pay $59 + $24 delivery, total for the order ~ $84. So you can now buy an extra $25 of stuff essentially to the same value of $84. and the $25 worth of the parts was no extra for the total cost ($84 inc free delivery).
Just to clarify, if you spent an extra dollar to bring it to $60 it costs $60 instead of $84, but its like my wife going shopping, I can put the parts on the table and say look I saved $25 when I spent $84
Edited 2024-03-13 15:58 by wiseguy