Just thought i'd share...

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

http://www.opamp-electronics.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=50&products_id=688


100 pieces of 100 values, metal film. not sure if this has been posted before, but hell if it didn't impress me.

biggest complaint is the emphasis on smaller values. but it seems great otherwise

if you were to do this at mouser ( $4 for 200 is how we'll grade, and that's generous ) you pay $200. this is awesome!

btw i am just posting this because i wanted a reasonably priced assortment, and this caught my attention. i have NO affilitaion with this place.

[nelson]

Just thought, since no one else has, I would post and say cheers.

I wont be ordering them personally its just good to see another example of why I keep coming back to this forum.

The almost altruistic posts.

[KORGULL]

Thanks for the tip.
I never heard of that company before - looks like a good one to add to my list of suppliers. 

[Hal]

these are weird values....I mena, they're close...

but not E12/E24.  Ive never used a 464KΩ resistor...

[PharaohAmps]

The "weirdness" in the values is because they're 1% resistors.  There's a long and complicated reason why resistors have the values they have, and why they follow a certain kind of logic, but suffice it to say that for a designer, specifying a 99.2k resistor is more useful than specifying a 100k.  The 99.2k will be between 99.1k and 100.2k, whereas a 100K resistor might be a 5%, 10%, or 20% type, so could be anywhere from 80K to 120K.  The "odd" values let designers be very exact in critical applications.  You'll see those crazy values a lot in medical and military gear, for instance.  Also in '70's Kustom amps, for some reason.  Bud Ross must have been nutty about quality...

BTW, they have a couple more assortments with more "normal" values, also excellent deals.  Never dealt with the company, so let us know how it goes.


Matt Farrow

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

i was told that the strange values we "commonly" use (22k, 47k, 68k??) were used to make better use of the wide tolerance of early resistors. the idea, i guess, was to have less overlap on the tolerances, so that your 25k resistor wasn't less than your 20k resistor, or something...