PSU recap.
Thanks for the comments and thanks Andrew for the offer !
OK so I spent a few more hours today clicking on websites. An absolute chore.
I took the time to complete the BOM on Mouser. Almost 30 Euros, including 5 Euros for a single lone Tantalum cap that Papy Smurf paid less than 2 Euros for in his BOM...
I press the trigger/order button. I am offered the expected 20 Euros export "deal" for shipping and customs fees etc... OK.
Then I click "Next", to select the payment method... and oh, what's that ?! They now add a new line to the order summary : " French Taxes, 10 Euros ", no detail/explanation
So much for the "20 Euros flat rate we take care of everything for you " !
So 60 Euros in all, for 30 Euros worth of goods.
Order cancelled, bye bye.
Mouser also had the OEM Lithium backup battery for the CPU board, excellent, but won't export it (as TerraOperative said in his video..), so useless to me.
So I tried Reichelt and it's 30 Euros shipped, half price, not much hesitation from my part.
Well actually I pushed it to 35 Euros to get a backup battery. Not OEM of course, a cylindrical one, not available here, so much thicker than the flat / low profile original battery. Hoping it will clear the scope cover, we shall see. If it does, it's gonna be a close call.
The result of this PSU recap searching is that I am appalled, stunned and disgusted. It is my first and last "mass"/brute force recap, until the world/situation comes back to normal. Never again.
Now some more on-line searching for me today, this time to find a supplier for the plinths in the bedroom... hoping it will be a bit easier....
I hate spending hours sat in front of the computer searching for stuff, whatever that stuff is.
I like designing, thinking, creating, doing, building, crafting, testing, using/playing with stuff.... not searching all day long for stuff on-line