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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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  • Another thing that's really useful and it (occassionally) allows me to let my workbench become my storage area is distributor labelling on the bag. My personal preference is Mouser labels. Part no is clearly displayed (and doesn't fade, like Farnell labelling does) and the part description is good enough to give you most of the key specs. Digikey also pretty good and it also has a customer reference field, which is really helpful when ordering components for a large prototype board. Here I tend to put the PCB identifier in this field. Then it's easier to identify where that components goes on the PCB if when you're hand placing components onto the board for reflow.

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  • Another thing that's really useful and it (occassionally) allows me to let my workbench become my storage area is distributor labelling on the bag. My personal preference is Mouser labels. Part no is clearly displayed (and doesn't fade, like Farnell labelling does) and the part description is good enough to give you most of the key specs. Digikey also pretty good and it also has a customer reference field, which is really helpful when ordering components for a large prototype board. Here I tend to put the PCB identifier in this field. Then it's easier to identify where that components goes on the PCB if when you're hand placing components onto the board for reflow.

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