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

For the diy’er that makes pcb’s this book of components is a well organized and easy to use. It have a very thorough assortment of resistors and a few capacitors. It has a few led’s, inductors and discrete components. It keeps it full by replacing individual components. The organization of everything is what I like most.

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!

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.

Many assortments don't have the common Apple capacitors, which are hard to find in small quantities. This assortment does.

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

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.

Excellent choice as a spare/introductory kit for smd (Surface mount) components. I purchased to create some specific small circuits, and found the components to be in spec. I have also used the components as replacements for failed parts in an original xbox, solid state amplifier, and a few other fixes/projects. Be aware that these kits are well rounded, and have many types of items, but a low quantity of each. For example, if you are working on an SMD LED (surface mount light emitting diode) project (like replacing the lights with a different color in a modern car dashboard) then you won't have enough LEDs (this kit has 10 per color.)

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.