Digikey policy change on backorders

I've occasionally seen problems with SMT resistors and caps. Order a

My personal experience with Digikey amounts to about 400-500 line items, and I have had zero errors.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

It seems that Newark has improved its services a lot. It charges 8$ for overnight shipping and 5$ for handling ($CAN).

Last time I ordered from Newark though, it was indeed shipped the same day, but it got stuck for brockerage...

Yvan

Newark InOne is currently doing a good job, though for some reason I recently got an order of two items in two shipments a day apart (no extra charge for shipping the 'backorder', which was shown as being in stock in Chicago).

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Speaking of Newark, I've had a very positive experience with them. I had perused their website, logged on just to see their catalog and what-not, and, possibly coincidentally, just at the time when I had a project come up where I needed to buy a couple of hundred dollars' worth of parts, a Newark salesman called me. Presumably triggered by my logging into the website. So, I told the salesman that I was interested in some resistors and transistors and misc. - he opened an account for me! I placed my order on the spot, they shipped it forthwith, and sent me a bill. I also got some parts from Mouser for the same project, but they didn't open an account - they just shipped the parts and billed me. Altogether an entirely pleasant and productive relationship. And they got the order right, which is, like, "Isn't that their _job_?"

I was very pleased with both, and intend to use them next time I can afford to buy parts in advance out of my own pocket for a client's project. (speaking of consulting fees! ;-) )

Cheers! Rich

"We fired our guns and the British kep' a-comin. They wadn't quite as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more an' they began a-runnin' On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of mexico.

(refrain)

Anybody else remember any more of that song?

Thanks! Rich

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Thanks! Rich

Try this ....

Blakely LaCroix Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(nip)

Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans, And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin. There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, I see'd Mars Jackson walkin down the street talkin? to a pirate by the name of Jean Lafayette [pronounced La-feet] He gave Jean a drink that he brung from Tennessee and the pirate said he?d help us drive the British in the sea.

The French said Andrew, you?d better run, for Packingham?s a comin? with a bullet in his gun. Old Hickory said he didn?t give a dang, he?s gonna whip the britches off of Colonel Packingham.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin. There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we looked down the river and we see'd the British come, and there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum. They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring while we stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise if we didn't fire a musket til we looked 'em in the eyes. We held our fire til we see'd their faces well, then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave a yell.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin. There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down, so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round. We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind, and when they tetched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We?ll march back home but we?ll never be content till we make Old Hickory the people?s President. And every time we think about the bacon and the beans, we?ll think about the fun we had way down in New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin, But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go. They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch 'em down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin. But there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Enjoy.

John

I have also had Newark send me two separate shipments, each with a shipping charge, for a single order having multiple line items.

The reason: They have more than one warehouse, and different parts are stocked in different warehouses. I have had single orders shipped in sets of two shipments, one from Chicago and one from somewhere in South Carolina (if I remember correctly).

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

And why would you want to do that? Direct connection to PCB saves a cable and thus saves cost, assembly and a possible failure source. But ofcourse all depends on the possibilities of placement and construction in the particular equipment. :-)

Apparently written in about 1935 by a history teacher, to make his lessons more interesting. The main thing that went wrong (for the Brits) at the BONO seems to have been that they forgot to bring the scaling ladders. That left them standing in the open, unable to storm the defences, an easy target for the American defenders, and picked off one at a time until they broke and ran.

Paul Burke

Newark are associated with farnell, and over here in the UK they don't charge for delivery to account customers. I wonder how long this can last- they have been making losses for several years now, I don't know how much due to postage.

Paul Burke