carlsson
Veteran Member
Yesterday I purchased some plastic boxes with lots of compartments to sort my small stash of loose components into: small bags and boxes of assorted surplus resistors, diodes, capacitors, connectors, ICs etc. In particular the selection of kilo and megaohm resistors is getting bigger than I expect to get use of.
Anyway, sorting resistors after colour code is relatively easy but reading values off diodes and capacitors is more tiresome so as the number of slots got fewer I decided on a very non-techie approach: sort those components after size, look and overall colour! :shock: Of course it means I will have to dig through a small pile of stuff everytime I look for something I may not even have.
Part of me is ashamed for this sorting approach but since I rarely need something from the box, I figure it is a better storage solution than keeping plastic bags loose in drawers. Now it is your turn, did you recently have a similar non-tech moment, when you went against your principles to simplify a task even if the end result was not 100% of what it could have been?
Anyway, sorting resistors after colour code is relatively easy but reading values off diodes and capacitors is more tiresome so as the number of slots got fewer I decided on a very non-techie approach: sort those components after size, look and overall colour! :shock: Of course it means I will have to dig through a small pile of stuff everytime I look for something I may not even have.
Part of me is ashamed for this sorting approach but since I rarely need something from the box, I figure it is a better storage solution than keeping plastic bags loose in drawers. Now it is your turn, did you recently have a similar non-tech moment, when you went against your principles to simplify a task even if the end result was not 100% of what it could have been?