Topband: Ferrite Cores

[Bill Wichers]

FT-240-61 cores. Amidon was $9/ea, Mouser (for the Fair Rite equivalent) was $14/ea. I was only ordering six cores so I couldn't make anyones quantity break.

Digi Key I don't think has many of the larger cores, but they have a *lot* of the smaller PCB-size stuff. I'm liking that my "regular" component suppliers are starting to carry more magnetics generally though :-)

  -Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl [mailto:km1h at jeremy.mv.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 10:40 PM
> To: Bill Wichers; jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
> Cc: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Ferrite Cores
> 
> Which cores were that?
> 
> Maybe they have been doing some comparisons recently since Mouser, Digi-
> Key, Arrow, etc have been well advertised on many forums.
> 
> The most overpriced has always been Palomar
> 
> Carl
> KM1H
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Wichers" <billw at waveform.net>
> To: <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Cc: <topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 6:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Topband: Ferrite Cores
> 
> 
> >I used to think amidon was expensive too, but just last week I ordered
> some
> >cores from them that we're almost 30% cheaper than mouser. I was pretty
> >surprised. It's probably worth checking prices again if you haven't
> >recently.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >> Why should you? Last I looked, Amidon was quite expensive.
> >>> (I remember when I got chewed out here for suggesting Laird/Steward
> >>> equivs).
> >>
> >>
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