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Question of the Month: How do you Organise Your Components? (or don't you?)

cstanton

You're working on a project, maybe at work? Maybe at home. You have your workbench and that might be tidy (we asked about that before... and I'm sure we will again).

But I have all of these resistors! What do I do..

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  • I keep all of my components in the original bags.  The components are almost exclusively SMD, so they don't take up too much space.  The bags are held inside of six 15 Quart storage boxes that are grouped as follows: 

    1. Resistors - I separate these according to range, 0-10, 10-100, 100-1K, 1K-10K, 10K-100K, > 100K
    2. Capacitors, Inductors, Ferrites, Connectors
    3. IC
    4. Retired parts
    5. Oversize (tubes) IC (processors)
    6. Oversize (tubes) IC

    Based on projects, I have several smaller storage units that I used for assembly.  I remove components from tapes and tubes into the storage boxes at the beginning of builds (usually 10 - 20 board). Upon getting and order, I do a quick inventory and order any shortages.  Then I kit up according to the BOM.

    So far, this has been working well.  

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  • I keep all of my components in the original bags.  The components are almost exclusively SMD, so they don't take up too much space.  The bags are held inside of six 15 Quart storage boxes that are grouped as follows: 

    1. Resistors - I separate these according to range, 0-10, 10-100, 100-1K, 1K-10K, 10K-100K, > 100K
    2. Capacitors, Inductors, Ferrites, Connectors
    3. IC
    4. Retired parts
    5. Oversize (tubes) IC (processors)
    6. Oversize (tubes) IC

    Based on projects, I have several smaller storage units that I used for assembly.  I remove components from tapes and tubes into the storage boxes at the beginning of builds (usually 10 - 20 board). Upon getting and order, I do a quick inventory and order any shortages.  Then I kit up according to the BOM.

    So far, this has been working well.  

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