Quote from: BkkCoins on June 27, 2013, 12:57:50 PM

Quote from: sensei on June 27, 2013, 12:46:41 PM

I really hope the next project is on Eagle. I really don't like Kicad much.

As an assembler/fabricator, I will be ordering almost 200k resistors and capacitors within the next. week. I have spent many hours going through the BOM looking for the best value from countless suppliers and looking at alternate parts as some parts have 13 week lead times. There is one part that for a run of 500 K16's, I need almost 100,000 of them.

My son and I will be building 50 of the K16's for ourselves and I will run most of them separately on USB hubs. A few we will klego together just to prove out the capability.

Hold off on R47, C274 as they are changing. R47 may be dropped or moved.
Make sure you check current parts list as R45, R46 just changed.

The 0.47 uF cap is a nuisance as it's high qty tends to push you out of the stock-on-hand category, but there are quite a few alternates that could be used and some have typically had quite high stock levels.

I think that's all I have for the moment.

I pulled the BOM a couple of days ago (the latest still) and I see that the quantities of the 100k ohm have dropped and shifted to the 1k ohm. I'm guessing these are the pullups for the data lines. The movement of one or so from one value to another isn't so much an issue if the part is already on the list as I'm buying these in 5k or 10k reels, but when a new value is added or one dropped, this is why I've been holding off on ordering.

I spent a lot of time on those 0.47 uF caps. I did find a replacement for about 0.5 cents each.