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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: korrelate on Fri, 04 October 2013, 14:12:04

Title: Smarter Searches for Electrical Components
Post by: korrelate on Fri, 04 October 2013, 14:12:04: As I've been searching for parts for my TrikX two concerns have been at the top of mind:

1. Authenticity of the Part
2. Price of the same.

Searches of GH posts have played an important part in my shopping preferences, but I found a new resource that I want to share with / open up discussion about with the GH community: ECIA (The Electronics Components Industry Association).

I don't know how much more credible an ECIA listing makes a distributor (that's the discussion I'd like to open... I mean is the ECIA as useful for an electronics shopper as the credit bureaus / risk scores are to lenders?) but I did like one thing in particular:

When I went out searching for 120 MXBlacks the ECIA results listed all of the price tiers of ALL of the Authorized Dealers that I had been checking manually: Mouser, OC, Sager, Verical, etc. And better yet... those prices were all correct and current.

Example ECIA Search:

http://www.eciaauthorized.com/search?pn=mx1a11nw&mfr=Cherry

Discuss & Enjoy!

Cheers,

K
Title: Re: Smarter Searches for Electrical Components
Post by: regack on Fri, 04 October 2013, 14:23:21: Hey, that's cool, nice resource.
Title: Re: Smarter Searches for Electrical Components
Post by: MTManiac on Fri, 04 October 2013, 14:28:51: That's quite the search engine!
Very nice find!

(http://static.tumblr.com/qzlpe6e/s1Sm9i9b1/joker_clap.gif)
Title: Re: Smarter Searches for Electrical Components
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 05 October 2013, 18:18:05: I've run across this site a few times before, but I have to ask, how is it better than octopart?
Title: Re: Smarter Searches for Electrical Components
Post by: korrelate on Sat, 05 October 2013, 20:34:51: I didn't say it was. But thanks for mentioning octopart.
Title: Re: Smarter Searches for Electrical Components
Post by: Melvang on Sat, 05 October 2013, 20:50:46: Awesome find. I will be using one of those links in my future electronics purchases in the future.