{"id":5773,"date":"2014-12-27T12:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:10:56","slug":"cool-tools-design-easy-smd-component-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/cool-tools-design-easy-smd-component-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Tools: Design Easy SMD Component Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/h3>\n

Inspired by Kevin Kelly’s book Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities<\/a>\"\", I have set out to document tools that I find particularly interesting or useful, primarily in my work as an electronics hobbyist and professional electrical engineer. This is the first post in that series.<\/p>\n

Design Easy SMD Component Books<\/h3>\n

\"Design<\/p>\n

These SMD component books<\/a>\u00a0are super handy for all sorts of electronics prototyping, construction, and repair projects. I bought a full set of these books for my lab bench at the office some time ago and and have found them invaluable. I liked them so much that I bought a second set for home!<\/p>\n

\"R0402<\/p>\n

I prefer these component books over other types of SMD kits such as trays, bins, drawers, or bags because they don’t take up much space on the shelf and they keep components nicely organized in order by value. \u00a0<\/em>Components\u00a0<\/em>are easy to access and hard to mix up.<\/p>\n

There are many other vendors on eBay<\/a> and aliexpress<\/a> that sell component books just like these, but I like\u00a0Design Easy<\/a> because they have reasonable prices and carry resistor and capacitor assortments from size 1206 all the way down to 0201. You can save on shipping by ordering a complete set at once.<\/p>\n

Here’s a snippet from their eBay store:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
0402 practical book: ( resistor 63value 3300pcs )+( capacitor 17value 950pcs )<\/a>
\n0603 practical book: ( resistor 63value 3025pcs )+( capacitor 17value 700pcs )<\/a>
\n0805 practical book: ( resistor 63value 3025pcs )+( capacitor 17value 700pcs )<\/a>
\nRF\u00a0practical book:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ( 0402 capacitor 12value 600pcs ) + (0805 capacitor\u00a010uF 50pcs\u00a0) + (0402 high F inductor 38value 1900pcs)<\/a><\/strong><\/span>0201 resistors: 106 values, 50 pcs\/value, 5300 pcs in all<\/a>
\n0402 resistors: 170 values,\u00a050 pcs\/value, 8500 pcs in all<\/a>
\n0603 resistors: 177 values,\u00a050 pcs\/value, 8850 pcs in all 5%<\/a>
\n0603 resistors: 170 values,\u00a050 pcs\/value, 8500 pcs in all 1%<\/a>
\n0805 resistors: 177 values,\u00a050 pcs\/value, 8850 pcs in all 5%<\/a>
\n0805 resistors: 170 values,\u00a050 pcs\/value, 8500 pcs in all 1%<\/a>
\n1206 resistors: 170 values, 50 pcs\/value, 8500 pcs in all<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

0402 capacitors: 80 values,\u00a050 pcs\/value,\u00a04000 pcs in all<\/a>
\n0603 capacitors: 90 values, 50 pcs\/value, 4500 pcs in all<\/a>
\n0805 capacitors: 92 values, 50 pcs\/value, 4600 pcs in all<\/a>
\n1206 capacitors: 38 values, 50 pcs\/value, 1900 pcs in all<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Their “practical book” series contains an assortment of SMD resistors and<\/em> capacitors in one book, while the separate resistor and capacitor kits are more complete and IMHO generally more useful, particularly if you use capacitors a lot and need a wider assortment of values.<\/p>\n

Bonus: If you want to create your own component assortment or add extra pages to an existing one, Adafruit carries\u00a0Blank SMT Storage Books<\/a> and extra Storage Pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction Inspired by Kevin Kelly’s book Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities, I have set out to document tools that I find particularly interesting or useful, primarily in my work as an electronics hobbyist and professional electrical engineer. This is the first post in that series. Design Easy SMD Component Books These SMD component books\u00a0are … Continue reading Cool Tools: Design Easy SMD Component Kits<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,5],"tags":[463,485,501,487,486,153],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-and-resources","category-electronics","tag-capacitor","tag-cool-tools","tag-electronics","tag-resistor","tag-smd","tag-smt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KGrHqNoUE8VkRp7iBPUBKuDmf60_12.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-1v7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5856,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/cool-tools-elecfreaks-smd-prototyping-shield\/","url_meta":{"origin":5773,"position":0},"title":"Cool Tools: Elecfreaks SMD Prototyping Shield","author":"Jeff","date":"February 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"These SMD prototyping shields from Elecfreaks are pretty useful for building and testing discrete circuits made with mostly 2 and 3-terminal surface mount devices. 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