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[Stickman393]

Best advice I have for ye? Buy 10K's by the fistful.

Actually, all the E3 decades. 10's, 22's, 47's. Those pop up like what like woah. Buy those in bulk.

Also, buy a lot of E6's. 15's, 33's, 68's...those are very common, you'll go through a lot.

I try to keep a stock of all the E24 series resistors in applicable decades. Pick up other values here and there. Similar deal with caps...sorta.

I need more of these:

 

[burger-patty-and-bacon]

What do you mean by e3 and e6 and decades?

 

[Cucurbitam0schata]

What do you mean by e3 and e6 and decades?

Check out this post I made a while back - I stumbled on a blog post explaining the weird patterns to all the values of the common parts. There's a reason for those oddball values, turns out!

I got curious again, because the E3, E6, E12 thing didn't stick the first time I found this out, this blog post summarizes it well. Most of the values used in the builds will have these components in them (4.7, 47, 470, etc.)

E3 decades - 1.0, 1.5, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7, 6.8
E6 decades - 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8, 2.2, 2.7, 3.3, 3.9, 4.7, 5.6, 6.8, 8.2