Beginner Question about my G-SSL parts ordering

[orksnork]

you're quite right. this is my first DIY, which helps explain why I'm so absolutely clueless.

Happy to hear that Gustav's stuff only takes that long.

As far as the wiring, thanks for mentioning a few of the things necessary. I'll look through the SSL thread again and see if there's any more beginner wiring questions...as like I said, I'm clueless as to what I need as far as the little harnesses and stuff.

 

[guavatone]

Harness? you mean the wires to the fron pannel PC boards right?

Are you using headers from gregs part list? If so those sockets that go to the headers use a connector with a specific wire gauge.

 

[orksnork]

I used everything off of greg's list exactly (short of a very few parts I had to swap out, mostly discussed in this thread)

 

[guavatone]

OK it looks like you are fine with 22-30 AWG wires for those going to the headers/sockets. Hell, if you are desparate and need a quick job ouse some old IDE cables - but not recomended for most projects.

 

[orksnork]

i think ill wait till i get some of these parts in and get a little more organized to buy anything else...

 

[orksnork]

ooh some parts started arriving today from digikey

 

[guavatone]

Welcome to the wild world of part ordering!

I just forgot 4 resistors out of 25 parts for a project. $@#%$^#&
-funny thing is that I got the part to fill 2 PCB's but needed to fill 4. zoinks!

 

[crisotop]

since I'm about to start a pair of gssls as well, I'd be intersted in a part list from european diy'er (maybe from rs components or something similar).

if somebody would share his bom my life would be a bit easier

thanks
christoph

 

[orksnork]

well...all my parts are from american companies...
if you go to the meta meta and hit the SSL stuff, i'm fairly sure there's a european bom

 

[orksnork]

oooh i've got the rest of the digikey order out for delivery via UPS...

weee

 

[orksnork]

oooh suhweet....the mouser stuff is out for delivery as well

 

[kazper]

I think it's best to buy extra resistors and caps.

Allot of the caps go down in price at 10 and if you look at the size most small values in 50V are the same dim as the 25,35v.

Ptown had a good deal on resistor kits for $121CAD (about the same US$) it's about $400 worth of resistors from Mouser to buy them.

It's one of those things that once you have them you just buy more when you run out of a value.

 

[orksnork]

a bunch of them required that i buy 10 as opposed to the necessary 2-3...

As far as experiences with companies go...

I put in an order to parts express early on one day for 4 connectors, and it took 2 days to ship it out....meh

 

[orksnork]

Mouser arrived and everything is accounted for and in correct quantity..

which i had these pcbs!@

 

[orksnork]

woo another box jampacked with 1000 things...time to check the list

 

[guavatone]

wow, if I counted everything I got from mouser and digikey I would never finish my next project, much less post about counting the parts. :wink:
-what am I doing online then.....time to stuff & rack.


Here's to Ptown for those resistor packs!
:thumb:

 

[orksnork]

haha..well i don't have a pcb to stuff yet! waiting ont he package from gustav..

but, on a different note, the vca's showed up today as well!!

ahh god i wish everyday was like today with tons of packages and stuff...i love it

 

[Ptownkid]

Yeah, I don't count anymore. If I realize that I was short shipped after I've used all of any given item, digikey is always good about fixing their mistake, even a month later.

 

[guavatone]

[quote author="orksnork"]ahh god i wish everyday was like today with tons of packages and stuff...i love it[/quote]

It's like Chrismas every week!
My subconscious must make me miss parts just to enjoy getting another package next week.

Keep in mind that Mouser (maybe Digikey too) is very, very good at returns and sometimes will just send you more parts.

 

[orksnork]

well are they generally pretty on point with getting you your order correctly? if so, I'll myself the grief of sorting through all the bullshit for an hour and a half

I KEEP FORGETTING THE DAMN METER

so all that's left to buy:

wire
meter
case

and i think i'm golden

well not golden. i'm going to buy a new soldering iron, a pcb holder etc.