1541-III group buy?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 11:10 AM +0200 10/7/07, Ethan Dicks wrote:

>  > I've done up a web page showing the price breakdown when ordering the
>>  parts from Newark, as they are a US arm of Farnell.
>>  http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/commodore/1541-III.html  It also
>>  includes the Manufacturer and Newark part numbers.
>
>Nice work.  I do notice that you've listed two MCUs, a PIC 18F252 and
>a PIC 18F2620.  Presumably, the design takes one _or_ the other, not
>both.

Good point.  Looking at the Bill of Materials, which is what I based 
that on, it appears that those are IC3.  Which tells me that you're 
correct.  
http://jderogee.tripod.com/project1541_downloads/1541-III_v1_BOM.txt

>Also, it looks to me like those 0.1" (2.54mm) jumpers is a bit high -
>$0.25 each, min q. 10.

That seems more than a little high to me as well.  I think the issue 
is that these are one of the items coming from Farnell.  I've not 
tried to find US equivalents, or checked other outfits such as 
Digi-Key.  I'm guessing this would result if a price reduction.  I'm 
also curious as to what the price would be to simply order everything 
from Farnell.

>Other killers are the $15 handling fee
>(presumably because the order value isn't up to their minimum value -
>$50?),

Actually it is to cover the stuff coming from Farnell (UK) rather 
than Newark (US).  In looking at the Farnell website, they do the 
same thing for stuff coming from Newark.

>Thanks for laying everything out in a very plain and clear fashion.
>It's a great starting point, especially for those who might have to
>order every single part to build a kit (I see large numbers of things
>I'd pull from my own stores).

I have it in an Excel spreadsheet if anyone wants it.  I still need 
to go through and figure out how much is optional (I know some of the 
power stuff is), or like the PIC's duplicates.  I might have a new 
expanded version up later on today depending on how much free time I 
have.

Zane


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