Smarter Searches for Electrical Components

[korrelate]

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

[regack]

Hey, that's cool, nice resource.

[MTManiac]

That's quite the search engine!
Very nice find!

[nubbinator]

I've run across this site a few times before, but I have to ask, how is it better than octopart?

[korrelate]

I didn't say it was. But thanks for mentioning octopart.

[Melvang]

Awesome find.  I will be using one of those links in my future electronics purchases in the future.