I’m often a dozy cow. I’ll order the wrong thing because I’ll miss something blatant on the packaging, like it being the wrong size, or I’ll forget to check the shape, or whatever. I think I use up all my exacting caution at work, checking drugs or sutures, or what have you.
So this morning, when the envelope from RS components arrived and looked…thin. And when I opened it and found this:
My first thought was that I’d been a spectacularly dozy cow. 5 small surface mount components stared back at me, and the complete lack of a pick-and-place machine, or indeed a device for them to live in wandered around my consciousness, as I debated what to do. I thought I’d just have to chalk it up to my usual insanity and buy some of the right components.
But I remembered looking at it. While I wanted an axial capacitor, I remember thinking that since the capacitors just hang in space anyway, so long as I insulate the legs it doesn’t hugely matter if it’s a radial one instead… I remember noting the size, and that 2cm was okay to fit into the space…
So I went back, looked at the site and found this:
…rang RS, and they’re trying to sort out (very nicely) what’s happened, and will ring me later before sending me the right component. Let’s hope that the old electrolytic in the valve radio hangs on to life until then…
