New Tayda website

spi said:
View attachment 93816

😭
Click to expand...
It probably is the same wah shell as sold on AliExpress. It was available on the old site as well as I just had one delivered a week or two ago. Looks to be the same generic one sold by Daier and others.

Frankly, kind of cheap quality and you’re going to need to go out and buy your own hardware for certain parts because the stuff they include is either substandard or just plain wrong. For example, the “self tapping screws“ are neither self tapping nor the right size (they’re too long even if they did tap properly and so would punch a hole through the enclosure and stick out, and if you stopped screwing them in before they punch through the shell, they wouldn’t be down far enough to hold anything in place) and the rack tensioner is paper thin plastic, meaning it’s not rigid enough to adjust tension on anything. I just had to buy the self tapping screws off Amazon, and I’ll make do with the rest. Of course, no instructions are provided so if you’ve never done this before, you’ll have to look around on the web for instructions for other kits because it’s largely the same parts and process.

M
 
mkstewartesq said:
It probably is the same wah shell as sold on AliExpress. It was available on the old site as well as I just had one delivered a week or two ago. Looks to be the same generic one sold by Daier and others.

Frankly, kind of cheap quality and you’re going to need to go out and buy your own hardware for certain parts because the stuff they include is either substandard or just plain wrong. For example, the “self tapping screws“ are neither self tapping nor the right size (they’re too long even if they did tap properly and so would punch a hole through the enclosure and stick out, and if you stopped screwing them in before they punch through the shell, they wouldn’t be down far enough to hold anything in place) and the rack tensioner is paper thin plastic, meaning it’s not rigid enough to adjust tension on anything. I just had to buy the self tapping screws off Amazon, and I’ll make do with the rest. Of course, no instructions are provided so if you’ve never done this before, you’ll have to look around on the web for instructions for other kits because it’s largely the same parts and process.

M
Click to expand...
Ya I haven’t assembled mine yet cuz the hardware looks like a bag of frustration.
 
Functionality complaints aside I like the new look. I had a pretty extensive userstyle custom CSS for Tayda to fix some stuff I didn't like and most aren't issues anymore.
 
They’ve also got a larger and more useful assortment of transformers than I remember them having before. And they’re offering enclosure/faceplate engraving and anodizing services. I saw that they’re theoretically offering PCB fabrication services (presumably through an outside board house), which may be a useful alternative if de minimis for China actually goes away. I emailed them for a quote and I’ll report back on what I hear.
 
JUST was on Tayda, and knew there had to be a thread here about it.


I was looking for resistors, but the Mega-Ohms and Kilo-Ohms and Ohms are all muddled together. Was easier to just search for a specific value.



WHAT I DO LIKE A LOT IS THE PAGES. FINITE PAGES.

FCUK ENDLESS SCROLLING ALA FECALBROOK!

YAY FOR DISTINCT PAGES!
 
I mostly buy stuff from digikey or mouser these days, if I have a backlog worthy of 100 bucks (cdn) for free shipping...That easy order page is a god damn disaster lmao. Mouser started carrying some of the kinda pots we use under the brand "same sky", and I'm gonna grab some soon. I can't imagine they're any better or worse than the tayda ones, that was really the only thing I got that was outside of the other places from em.
 
This is a rough wireframe, but I want the UX of buying enclosures to work more like this: do it all in one go; no separate items.

1744486572417.png

This would require some API work to connect to the drill.taydakits domain (a whole rework there would be good), so the options for both UV and drill are already completed on the other side of things.
 
jessenator said:
This is a rough wireframe, but I want the UX of buying enclosures to work more like this: do it all in one go; no separate items.

View attachment 93923

This would require some API work to connect to the drill.taydakits domain (a whole rework there would be good), so the options for both UV and drill are already completed on the other side of things.
Click to expand...
Tbh even without specifying the UV print/drill files it would be nice if you could just pick the enclosure and select the color from a droplist like that, and add checkboxes for drill/UV print. You could still specify them on the drill site, but could just add the necessary drill and UV print items straight from the enclosure page.

But I'm not sure if it's actually a big enough part of their business to warrant extra work like that. I used to work in ecommerce, and from what I could see developing store pages is not the easiest task in the world.
 
I didn’t even notice the resistors being out of order on my last purchase. The first time I looked at the old easy ordering page, I said “nope” and ctrl+f’ed that shit. I dislike scrolling very large pages.
 
jcpst said:
I didn’t even notice the resistors being out of order on my last purchase. The first time I looked at the old easy ordering page, I said “nope” and ctrl+f’ed that shit. I dislike scrolling very large pages.
Click to expand...
Same. But honestly, that's what I did before as well, so not much changed for me. It is pretty chaotic to scroll though.

Also, removing single items from your cart takes foreveeever.
 
PedalBuilder said:
They’ve also got a larger and more useful assortment of transformers than I remember them having before. And they’re offering enclosure/faceplate engraving and anodizing services. I saw that they’re theoretically offering PCB fabrication services (presumably through an outside board house), which may be a useful alternative if de minimis for China actually goes away. I emailed them for a quote and I’ll report back on what I hear.
Click to expand...
(Non) Update: I still haven't heard back.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top