SMD 0805 Book, Resistors, Capacitors, Transistors, Diodes SMT Electronic Components Assortment - 5435 pcs

I took a class where we were designing and fabricating PCB boards using these circuit board printing machines. The machine sucked. You couldn’t do through a hole with them. I mean, you could do through a hole with them, but it didn’t go very well for any of my 27 classmates. One of us stumbled onto these books of service mount components, and most of us bought them. They came in clutch. We revised our boards for all surface mount components aside from a few wires that got soldered to the board and got hot glued. For the price, she had a nice selection of components. I was mostly interested in the resistors and capacitors. The op amps aren’t the best, but they work kind of. I didn’t try out any of the transistors. The diodes worked well. Teaming this kid up with an electrolytic surface mount capacitor kit, and you are op af. Oh no, you get a ton of parts for the price if you were to order these through Digi-Key as singles. You would pay a lot more and have to wait at least a week to get it in with Amazon, we got these “books” in two days. all the resistors are labled well and the 1206 size is large enough to handle and manually place with tweezers.

The actual pieces are exactly what was advertised, resistors, capacitors, diodes, etc. in the proper sizes and more consistent than my through-hole resistors for prototyping. The only problem is the book that holds them isn't quite big enough and I knew right after I opened it that they were going to be a mess (the tape reel holder pages, not the components) so I moved them into an old dayplanner with the same ring layout but with bigger rings to appropriately accommodate the pages. Overall, excellent product! Just plan on a different organization system once they arrive.

This is a very handy and quality selection of basic and advanced parts for SMD repair. I keep these ‘books’ for the three most common SMD sizes in case my parts bin and inventory is otherwise lacking. If you occasionally repair gear this might be the only parts ‘kit’ you need. I suggest the 0805 and 0604 but you might want the additional 1206 ‘book’ for older or high power devices or ‘vintage’ computers and PCB’s, although they don’t ’feel vintage’ to me! The quality and selection included with the this parts book is very solid. It is plenty to get you started with repairing SMD gear. It’s also good to have on hand when you don’t know what parts you might need for a repair. The price is silly reasonable and I recommend everyone even tangentially interested in fixing or modifying SMD gear. I’d recommend through-hole kits as well to round out a well stocked and very capable parts inventory. It’s hard to have all the parts on-hand when diagnosing and troubleshooting electronics gear but having a parts ‘book’ on-hand really improves those odds and this is a good place to start.

It was good, as advertised. Tons of variety. Little dissapointing on the capacitor selection, and there are no caps below 100pf, so you have to buy separate caps for crystal oscillator circuits. Also, be careful to get the correct size, 1206 is pretty dang big for smd!

They are exactly what I expected. The books good quality and keeps it very neat and organized.

Have been working on new projects, and this book has been great. If I find I'm about to run out of something, I can order it in bulk, because that means I'm using it a lot. 1206 is a nice size to work with; juuust big enough that I can place and solder things on by hand without cursing (too much). Have used inductors, capacitors, resistors, and LEDs from this book, and everything's worked great. The tweezers were also a nice addition (you'll need them to get components out of the sleeves!). Not sure who ever first came up with the idea of putting a huge assortment of components into a book like this, but it's one of society's greatest gifts to electronics hobbyists. All that said, I've ignored the transistors because I'm not sure on their pin configuration and testing them would be cumbersome.

This is a great collection of parts. I can remember when having this many parts on hand would take up a whole wall of containers! They're all neatly bound, grouped, and indexed which makes finding the right part easy. Mine also included a bonus package not mentioned in the product page containing a tube of fine solder, tweezers, and a tiny soldering tip for my iron. I can't imagine a better kit!

Excellent for the hobbyist like myself. I have never had my components so organized. Just what I needed.