This is a fun product :) When you open the box you'll see the tray is divided into several different sections. Each section has several baggies with individual values and a little slip of paper with the resistors values in it. The downside is that things can get mixed up really easily and it can take a while to dig through a compartment to find the value you're looking for. Still, this is a good resistor kit for the beginner at a fair price.
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Half watt!
I quite like this little kit. I bought it years ago and it’s supplied all the resistors I’ve ever needed except for specialty high-wattage ones. You only get five of each resistance. It might have been nice if they had put higher quantities of more commonly used ones. But I like that these are half-watt. In a lot of small electronics projects you can get away with quarter-watt resistors, but these are beefier and so give you a little more versatility (and room for error). I stuck two little pieces of cardboard in my box to act as dividers, as you can see in the picture. I also like to store a resistor color codes cheat sheet card in the box. It might have been nice if the kit came with those items, but you can easily print your own reference card from the internet. And the bags are labeled with actual numbers, so you arguably never need to read color codes, but you do need to somehow distinguish between the four different ratings in each little bag. (Nonetheless, that’s a lot easier than ringing through a completely unsorted bin of 365 pieces!)You will want to have a breadboard if you’re working on little electronics projects. And you’ll probably want a soldering iron and some protoboards too. And you should really have a multimeter on hand so you can tell what’s happening. If you’re just doing little low-voltage battery-powered circuits then you don’t need anything fancy and you might take a look at the Aneng AN8008 but please don’t use a cheap meter on high-energy circuits like your household wiring.
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I quite like this little kit. I bought it years ago and it’s supplied all the resistors I’ve ever needed except for specialty high-wattage ones. You only get five of each resistance. It might have been nice if they had put higher quantities of more commonly used ones. But I like that these are half-watt. In a lot of small electronics projects you can get away with quarter-watt resistors, but these are beefier and so give you a little more versatility (and room for error). I stuck two little pieces of cardboard in my box to act as dividers, as you can see in the picture. I also like to store a resistor color codes cheat sheet card in the box. It might have been nice if the kit came with those items, but you can easily print your own reference card from the internet. And the bags are labeled with actual numbers, so you arguably never need to read color codes, but you do need to somehow distinguish between the four different ratings in each little bag. (Nonetheless, that’s a lot easier than ringing through a completely unsorted bin of 365 pieces!)
You will want to have a breadboard if you’re working on little electronics projects. And you’ll probably want a soldering iron and some protoboards too. And you should really have a multimeter on hand so you can tell what’s happening. If you’re just doing little low-voltage battery-powered circuits then you don’t need anything fancy and you might take a look at the Aneng AN8008 but please don’t use a cheap meter on high-energy circuits like your household wiring.
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