[TriEmbed] Python code for resistor selection

[Pete Soper]

On 05/19/2016 10:35 AM, Michael Monaghan wrote:
> Pete,
>
> If these don't answer your need, at least they provide the dataset for 
> your target resistors:
>
> https://github.com/mogar/EE_tools
>
> https://techoverflow.net/blog/2015/05/19/finding-the-nearest-e96-resistor-value-in-python/

Wow. This is just exactly what I was after! Complete with license that 
is what the hippies would call "truly righeous". Thanks very much. I 
don't intend to connect this to octopart or the like, just to be able to 
generate some resistor options to give immediate feedback about tradeoffs.

-Pete
>
> I think the second one is a good starting point.  Just need a simple 
> iterator to build a list of candidates.  I'm not aware of anyone with 
> pricing information in a digestible format and as often as it changes, 
> it would probably be better to build a web page scrape to get it.
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed 
> <triembed at triembed.org <mailto:triembed at triembed.org>> wrote:
>
>     I'm looking for existing Python code that knows about E24 and E96
>     resistor values. It would be a plus if it did the simple
>     calculations to select, for example, two 1% resistors in parallel
>     that give a resistance close to a target value. I've made a
>     modeler for a circuit that requires precision resistors and would
>     like to make it less painful to map required values into ones that
>     happen to be for sale at affordable prices. But I figured it would
>     be silly to reinvent this wheel if it's already done in a form
>     that I can just slurp up with attribution.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Pete
>
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