On Sat, 11 May 2019 09:52:14 +0100, "dennis@home"
wrote:

On 10/05/2019 20:48, wrote:

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The only time a saleswoman made me laugh was when she told me they were cheaper than RS.




There is quite a lot of stuff cheaper on RS than ebay.

????

By God RS have changed then.

I don't use RS now. I went off them when I found I could no longer buy
2.5mm Weidmuller terminals and 2.5 mm cable without doing a load of
cross referencing on the internet.

I did wonder when RS went AWG, whether they knew something was afoot
Brexit wise, and they went AWG around 5- 6 years back.

But cpc are usually cheaper still.


Had hassle with CPC, I always used my personal card for company
expenses, but CPC would not deliver to site on a personal card.
Farnell were a lot better, but oddly enough they seemed to have a lot
of stock problems and CPC usually had what they listed.

I use Ebay now. Some of the finished goods can be total junk, but most
of the cheapo Chinese components and basic electronic control
assemblies are amazing.

PID controller, N type T/C, SSR and a heating element all for less
than £20-00

Do that with a Eurotherm based system from CPC or RS :-)

AB



The hall effect switches I use on my train layout are 69p at CPC or £3
on ebay and amazon.

I thought about buying a few hundred and listing them myself but it not
going to make me a fortune.


This the sort of thing needed and its more likely to actually be safe
than one off some dodgy ebay trader from some unspecified place in china.

https://cpc.farnell.com/mercury/651-...W04236?st=110v