My Electronics Parts Kit Addiction
Whether you’re an electronics hobbyist, like me, or a professional in the industry, you’re going to need a lot of electronic components to build your circuits. As the number of brick & mortar retailers that offer electronic parts has dwindled, in most cases this will mean you need to order parts online, with the inevitable wait until they arrive.
This gave me a reason to create my collection of electronic components so they’d be ready to use whenever a project of mine called for them. The best and most seemingly economical way to do this was to purchase components in kits of parts. These are normally put together and marketed for a certain type of component for multiple values/variations. Purchasing these electronic parts kits has helped me to build up my stockpile of components and has come in handy with just the right part for multiple projects thus far. But,….there is a downside.
My Amazon packages started to come more frequently with these little kits and modules that were the result of stoking the fire for my online retail adventures. Soon other online retailers were involved such as Jameco electronics, Digikey, AliExpress, Battery Hookup and more. When I realized that some of these purchases had such reasoning behind them of “I’m sure I can use this someday” or “I may not find this part again” I figured out I might have a problem. I was an Electronic Parts Kit Addict.
With that public admission out there, and expressed in this video, I’ll also cover some of the more practical reasons why purchasing such kits, AS NEEDED AND IN MODERATION, can be a very good thing to stock up your electronics workbench. I’ll even show you some of the kits that I’ve purchased, admittedly mostly from Amazon and give my impressions on which kits are the best and some of the thought processes behind my decisions to buy certain ones.
If you’re building up your electronic parts stockpile for your own work bench, hopefully this will give you some good ideas, but this is also a cautionary tale as this can be very additive, as you’ll see.
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Im disappointed , so you don’t have the relay kit , 7-segment display kit , 555 timer kit , motor assortment kit , the blaster2000 kit , the plutonium isolator kit , the magnet levitator kit , the hoverboard kit ……
The book of surface- mount compoments is a really great idea. Thank you!
When I buy from Aliexpress, I have to buy at least 10 of everything. What’s the point of ordering just 1? I’m addicted too! lol
I thought I was bad.
same.
me: "ohh, that looks like a handy assortment to have on hand for when i need them."
also me: never uses any of them.
I buy the assortment, use all of only one part, then buy bulk that part. Fun fact, im a hobby guy thats never actually used all of one part. But i do have a shiz-ton of really nice organizers filled with neatly seporated components.
Welcome to the club
Nothing wrong with being a hoarder ,as long as ur a builder.😀
Gives a whole new meaning to "needing a fix". 🔈🎛📻🔌🔍💡🪛🔨🔬🔧🔩
🤣😂😉
Where polimer capacitors? 😅
0:53 WE’RE ALL MATES HERE MATE
Look on the bright side….
YOU SINGLEHANDEDLY KEEP , EBAY, FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE, RS COMPONENTS AND DIGIKEY IN BUSINESS
so that they can feed their families and have a good life
LMFAO
30+ years as a Certified Electronics Technician. SATCOM and consumer electronics. Bins of resistors 47 ohm 1/4, 1/2 1 and all the way up to 20 W for each resistance value. Then Capacitors of various types and values. The only things I didn’t stock like picture tubes or Fresnel lenses, Had my service van stocked with Zenith TV modules. Then I had a service call on an OLD TV and the couple preferred to fix it than buy another one.
We are ALL JFET Junkies!! 😵💫🤖🦾🦿⚡📻🎛🔋🔌 🤣😂😆😃
I just opened this video is because I also have this same problem. Before Watching this I was in denial.
I started back in the Electronics Goldmine days 🙂
This makes 200 000 of us 🙂
i feel guilty, not about the the buying but my disorganised mess… you are very organised!
nice video,
my collection is growing year after year,
i always by a kit of component, didnt this hobby would be fun to do
6:41 Don’t hoard the RIFA!
same problem with me
I’m damn poor lol
If you are going to be in the game for a while then why not! I am sure that many have started a design thinking they have what they need to see it through only to find a slight mod is needed for completion with no part substitute on hand.
Best of all, these kits are way cheaper than they used to be.
Sometimes you can buy the kit or lot for the same price as the couple parts you might need.
You’re not alone. 🙂
Your mad !!!! A production facility wouldn’t have that much hardware in stock ! But if that’s what floats your boat then carry on !!! Magic .
Dear sir, you are completely mad. I understand this because I’m the same and did exactly the same thing when I retired and decided to get back into my teenage hobby of electronics…..but its a pretty cheap obsession…Sadly I do the same thing with power and hand tools and I literally have thousands of GB pounds worth of these things now 😐
What have you built?
Anyone else experienced regret about purging their junk board collection. 🤔 realizing the part you badly needed was on one you got rid of 2 weeks ago… 😂
Dude!! Me also a crazy guy like you.😂.all on sudden, I found your channel. Subscribed,only for this crazy addiction to electrical kits.
Far cheaper and takes up less space than an old car collection.
Hi, I’m Israel, and I have a tool addiction…I’m two weeks sober
Also there are some rules which I have discovered apply when you have this complaint. Firstly there are some kits bought without reading the description properly which you later discover are so specialised that you will realistically never actually use any of them. Secondly you find that some of the kits, particularly of semiconductors, only supply components which are rarely used and the most useful varieties are not included therefore you are not likely to use any of the ones supplied. And finally there are some kits which are genuinely useful, such as the heat shrink ones, but after several. years you find that you have completely used up the three useful sizes whilst the other 9 sizes are completely untouched. I am happy to say that I am now over this obsession and I now have the patience to only order what I actually need and just order a few more than I want each time so my collection of potentially useful stuff slowly increases. This has the side effect of focusing me on actually getting repairs and projects completed! Hope this helps!
They say getting into Eurorack synth modules is dangerous, and they’re right and I have bags of parts in case I see a module I want to build so I feel for the parts addiction.
you never know what you need tomorrow…
It’ll come in handy, even if you don’t use it.😙
Buying more than you need is abnormal, it’s ok if you’re an inventor?in order to invent you must read some books,Theory with principles.
I bought a box resisters from a school auction. 168 thousand over 6000 values from 2 watts down to 1/4 watt. All downhill from there.
Do i sell those?
Instant subscription
Looks like most of those boxes have never been used.
Omg omg I have a whole closet of that stuff, boxes of parts, Arduinos, cars with remote sensors, silicone work mat, soldering station, every ADABOX, still virgin, all just waiting until I have time, just in case I need to fix something. Ohhhh, I need help.
I’m with ya Brother.
You can salvage tons of components from many industrial/commercial electronic devices, defective or thrown away. Good for the environment, good for your addiction, good for your pocket.
Oh man. I could do the exact same video. It is uplifting to know that I am not alone, and I will go direct to Amazon order those diodes and Zeners I am convinced I will need one day 🙂
this is like my desk. boxes and boxes of the buggers, inductors, film caps, ceramic caps, electrolytic caps, bjt, ‘fets, wire shrink tubing, potentiometer, zener diodes, schitky diodes, rectifying diodes, 47 IC, 74 IC, LEDs, and some of them again for SMD bits.
all bought from amazon and ebay in the last year, since i decided to learn how electronics worked. i have found these kits invaluable. with these kits, bigclive, and electroboom, and a ‘scope and function gen, and a couple of bench supplies, i have gone from not knowing what ac and dc meant, a year ago, to building laser drivers, inverters, and model rocket avionics.
Wow you are lucky. I wish I collection those like your
I managed to pickup four or five of the sensor kits.
Where can I buy these parts kits reliably?
I just found-out the XR2206 function generator kits have bum steer ICs.
Thanks!
I have this addiction too. Its a terrible affliction. I need help but nobody understands me. I can fix just about anything though 🙂
You got a I.C. socket in your connector drawer! That would drive me bats.
MATE….
THE FIRST STEP IS ADMITTING THAT YOU HAVE AN ELECTRONICS ADDICTION
Step 2 is Accepting that you’re a bad guy…. but that doesn’t mean you are A BAD GUY
Now let’s finish up with the Electronics bad guy affirmation
I AM BAD AND THAT’S GOD
I AM NOT GOOD AND THAT’S NOT BAD
THERE’S NO ONE I’D RATHER BE… THAN ME
LOL