[TriEmbed] TriEmbed Digest, Vol 39, Issue 4

[Chip McClelland]

Pete, 

You showed me this board and I can attest that it is an almost unbelievable bargain.  Please count me in for one.

Thanks,

Chip

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>   1. Re: resistor decade board with unbeatable bang for the buck
>      (Pete Soper)
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> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:32:17 -0400
> From: Pete Soper <pete at soper.us>
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> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] resistor decade board with unbeatable bang for
> 	the buck
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> Jeff Crews is doing a group buy of these decade boards for Splatspace 
> folks. I can gather orders from TriEmbed folks (this Monday's meeting or 
> before) and deliver the boards to one of our later meetings (probably 
> September). Price is $8 each but a bit extra as a donation to Splatspace 
> for Jeff's trouble would be very welcome. (disclosure: I'm a Splatspace 
> board member)
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> I'll bring a couple to the Monday meeting. I have to take my kid back to 
> school this weekend, but if time allows I'll see if I can make a 
> prototype base to share too.
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> -Pete
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> On 08/03/2016 12:41 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
>> 
>> The item below is a seven decade, 1% 1/2 watt resistor board that 
>> allows jumper-selecting a resistance from one ohm to almost 10 megohms 
>> in increments of one ohm. You don't really get one ohm steps with 1% 
>> resistors, but in practice I've found these boards to be absolutely 
>> fabulous for dialing in circuits. And if you have a decent meter you 
>> can use that with adjustment to low order values to get a truly 
>> precise resistance out of circuit.
>> 
>> I bought five on May 31st and one other item totaling $53 and there 
>> was no shipping charge. So for me they were exactly $8 each and they 
>> were delivered exactly two weeks after I ordered them.
>> 
>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CZLPAOM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>> 
>> My plan is to laser cut rectangles of acrylic and mount them so I 
>> don't have to worry about shorting the bottoms. A few alternative 
>> connection options like binding post/banana jacks will also make them 
>> even more convenient.
>> 
>> If anybody wants to run a group buy of these, put me down for three 
>> more. :-)
>> 
>> -Pete
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