On Nov 4, 10:17 am, wrote:


Radio Shack bashing needs to be countered.


You'd be hard pressed to find a local source for a two
watt non inductive resistor but Radio Shack will have
one, even if the guy behind the counter doesn't know
what it is.

They weren't much help with a 600 PIV rectifier diode when lightning
did a number on my TV a few years back. Probably one of the few things
in the TV that I would be capable of fixing - TV died after a storm,
opened it up, started ohming from the power line coming in, found an
open fuse and a shorted rectifier diode. Of course, the kid in the
store didn't know what it was, but it wasn't something they stocked
anyway - only had about 5 different flavors of rectifier diodes. For
anything other than garden-variety resistors and capacitors, I have
always done better going to a real electronics parts store like
Circuit Specialists - prices are usually much better too.

Jerry