Wanted to get this out to you! Electronic Assembly parts at decent prices that can be found at sites below, Comaprasions of parts quality and price were the factors in choosing the parts below. Others may have their preferences, but others don't have the luxury, or pocket books to pay $2.50 for a socket! UPDATED 9-11-04---3-27-2005---7-7-2005---8-6-2005

Prices may have gone up a bit, but still same quality items for basic and advanced Prototype Assembly.

NOW 8 New SMD Protoboards are here. 4 new 1.5" square, QFP and TSSOP/SOIC breadboards with Proto-Chip SMD Thru-hole pads! and 4 1.75" square TSSOP/SOIC 0.5 mm, 0.635/0.65 mm, 0.8 mm SSOP and all have 1 SOIC pattern and wire pads for 1206-0603 parts and wiring from back side, groundplanes power traces, what more can you ask for?!

Electronics Assembly and parts - More to come!

Basically, the BEST SMD Prototyping site, is helping you to find and choose components wisely, and spend less $$!!

Common parts by Manufacturer and part #

Modern Electronic Components and Supplies - Leif's Picks for Consumers Shopping Comaprasion

Digi-key.com 800-344-4539 Has a $5.00 handling charge for orders less than $25.00

Digi_key has for parts:

DB-9 connectors:

DigiKey # Description Mfgr. Manufacturer # Price

A23277-ND Rt. Angle Male-Steel/Tin plated shell Amp/Tyco 747840-4 $1.64

A23303-ND Rt. Angle Female Amplimate HD-20 Amp/Tyco 747844-4 $1.94

A23276-ND Rt. Angle Male gold flash Amp/Tyco 747840-3 $2.04

A23302-ND Rt. Angle Female gold flash Amp/Tyco 747844-3 $2.03

Rt. Angle Male metal shell Norcomp 182-009-112-161 $1.04

Rt. Angle Female metal shell Norcomp 182-009-212-161 $1.04

Terminal Blocks:

DK # 277-1273 to –1283-ND Phoenix Contact MPT 0.5/X-2.54 $1.07 for 2 contacts to $6.41 for 12 contacts

These are for soldering on board, and use to wire I/O to the outside world. These fit on 0.1”/2.54mm centers, the “X” in part #, is # of contacts needed. Very small and useful to screw a wire into TB and run it to another board, etc…and be removeable!

BNC, Rt. Angle connectors: Use for clock or other coax type signals.

A24486-ND Amp/Tyco 227161-1

A24488-ND gold Amp/Tyco 227161-3

IC sockets:

Screw machine open frame sockets Mill-Max 110-99-3XX-41-001

$0.32 = 8 pin, $0.57 = 14 pin, $0.65 = 16 pin socket “XX” is pin count in part number

Solder – by Kester Solder.

#44 RA Kester, #285 RMA Kester #245 No-Clean Kester, #331 Water-soluble Kester.

RMA Flux Pens $3.80 look in soldering section of catalog

Hookup wire: ALPHA #24 AWG solid core $10.44/100ft. roll – MOUSER has the best price I can find. There is one I am trying to find that has insulation that won’t melt as much as this type when soldering it, but this is the least expensive 100 ft. roll I can find.

SMD PLCC SOCKETS???

Trying to find one having leads protruding past socket, for easier soldering, and probing.

I have seen them, but can’t find them right now.

Panasonic caps and resistors are the choices in this catalog, for both SMD and leaded parts.

MOUSER catalog parts mouser.com 800-633-2246 Educational sales dept. NO minimum order.

MOUSER Pt.# Description Mfgr. Manufacturer # Prices

ALPHA #24 AWG solid core. ALPHA 602-3050/1-100 $5.57/100ft

Test Prod Wire for test leads 18 AWG. Rubber Belden 566-8899-100 $38.77/100 ft

Magnet Wire for hookup/coils Belden #8049 to #8058 different AWG’s

Test points - for PLCC board Keystone 534-1040 $6/100 $40/1000

Phoenix Contact Terminal Blocks $1.08 to $6.48 same parts as in Digi-Key

BNC Rt. Angle 571-2271611 Amp/Tyco 227161-1 $1.84

IC Sockets - Mill-Max# 110-99-308-41-001 for 8 pin DIP socket Mouser# 575-199308 $0.20 ea 10/$1.90

Mill-Max# 110-99-314-41-001 for 14 pin DIP socket Mouser# 575-199314 $0.34 ea 10/$3.10

Mill-Max# 110-99-316-41-001 for 16 pin DIP socket Mouser# 575-199316 $0.38 ea 10/$3.50

DGS Banana plug socket for pcb mount to connect Banana Jack to boards

164-6218 Black 164-6219 Red Double height 164-6220 Black 164-6221 Red

Universal PLCC Extractor #381-1000 $13.50 this is the squeeze type one, and best price I could find.

DIP component header by CA 544-14P-02 $1.25 544-16P-02 $1.15

Use to make SOIC to DIP adapters, pullup packs, or other types of component arrays. Has a socket with little forks to put parts across the pins. Use Proto-Chip board to make the SOIC to DIP adapters. See the links on http://protoboards.theshoppe.com to the corkboard for instructions on how to do this.

Xicon resistors and caps here are the best buy for leaded and SMD parts.

Solder and flux pens are here also, in the soldering section.

Remember to see the soldering article on the website, it has been updated recently. I hope to add more to it over the years. Maybe I should write a SMD assembly handbook?

It pays to shop around for best prices. ALL Students AND ENGINEERS should learn this, as it acquaints them with part #’s, searching catalogs, and data sheets for parts, and shopping for best prices. Companies are always trying to save $$, and cut costs. These are some of the parts I have found to be low cost and usable for prototyping boards.

Other places to look : Jameco, Electronic Express, Newark, Allied, and the electronic distributors found in the web search using google.com or any of the electronic parts search engines.

Web-EE.com has one. Arrow, Avnet, Future, RS Electronics, are distributors,

Contact East and Techni-Tool are other suppliers of tools and lab equipment.

Surplus electronics parts are available also!!! Ebay, and other auction sites too! Do not be afraid of using search engines for pats and sources. Just try shorter, or longer, and different names for the same things.

HMC Electronics, is a good source for Metcal soldering items on the cheap, and other supplies. Check the Ebay stores, and look up surplus electronics on google.

NEW TSSOP & SOIC Breadboard! The NEW PROTO-CHIP JR.

1 of the 8 NEW SMD boards!! This is 1 of 4 in a 1.75" square board, Panel. You can buy singles, or a assortment of 4. Also have 2 QFP and 2 TSSOP/SOIC 1.5" square protoboards with similar layouts, 1 is 56 Pin TSSOP, 0.5 mm QFP, 0.8 mm QFP

NEW TSSOP 52 Pin 0.5 mm pitch, 28 pin 0.65 mm, and SOIC Breadboard!