[TriEmbed] bad news about decade resistor boards

[pete@soper.us]

Where are the 1% 1/2 watt resistors with the required values for a few cents each? In my experience stepping away from E96 values gets pricey, assuming you can find a source at all. Then there's the notion of the time to design the board, get it and a stencil made, paste and pick and place the parts and solder it, then add the barrier strip. So that's $0/hr for labor and magical sources for parts. 
Pete

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From: "Robert Gasiorowski" <rgresume at gmail.com>
To: "Pete Soper" <pete at soper.us>
Cc: "Triangle Embedded Computing Discussion" <TriEmbed at triembed.org>
Subject: [TriEmbed] bad news about decade resistor boards
Date: Sat, Oct 15, 2016 9:31 AM

It would probably cost less if you made them yourself, and that's including assembly!You could make them custom size, so that they fit the box of your choice.
You could also use higher precision resistors (0.1% or better) for 1k, 10k, and 100k, to make your decade box even better.
High precision resistors are expensive, but in bulk might not be that bad.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
Just a few folks expressed interest in the decade board a while back. I thought it might be more interesting mounted on a laser-cut acrylic base and I wasted some time exploring these and other cute accessories. In the meantime the price was jacked up to $14 +$3 shipping each. I searched around and couldn't find the quantity five deal Paul pointed us too either. I was going to just get a bunch on spec and coordinate with Jeff to offer them in return for Splatspace donations. But at this price they're no longer interesting. Here's the item in question:



https://smile.amazon.com/Electronics-Salon-1R-9999999R-Programmable-Resistor/dp/B01CZLPAOM/ref=lp_8937979011_1_3?srs=8937979011&ie=UTF8&qid=1476535329&sr=8-3



-Pete





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