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Simple Farnell / Element14 Live Price & Stock Update in Excel BOM

5 Comments / BOM, Tutorial / By Jon Watkins

When compiling a Bill Of Materials (BOM) for a project, you inevitably end up with a spreadsheet listing the parts and suppliers. Most PCB CAD packages can even output parts directly in CSV format which can be directly imported into a spreadsheet package such as Excel. Recently, I was playing around with a circuit in […]

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A Comparison of Molex KK 0.1″ Crimp Tools

I was recently discussing some equipment repairs and refurbishments with a new sub-contractor and the subject of replacing a number of leads came up. These leads were terminated on one end by the common 0.1″ molex KK connectors and I enquired whether they had a crimp tool for these. As they hadn’t, there followed a