Wow..... my German friend just loves my little JLC board, asked me to build 8 cables, great... so I go to Farnell to dig out my previous order from a couple months ago, so I can order some more parts and .... what? The SOT23 2N2222A trannies I bought last time, are now out of stock ?! And it says that it will be back in stock in.... wait for it... February ?! ... and February... 202
4 !!!!
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So I searched in their site for another such part from another supplier... WHAT again ! Search engine spits out only FOUR results of parts actually in stock.
And that's really more like only TWO, but with different packaging options (cut tapes or reel). One from " Nexperia " and the other from " Diodes Inc ".
The Nexperia one they have only TWO parts in stock !
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The Diodes Inc one, they have plenty, 13K +. So basically just ONE single choice ?!
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So I bought that...
OK now I am starting to believe this semiconductor shortage I keep hearing about !
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