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And no more radio shack to buy more of these!
I really don't know where to go any longer for some things like this. I know, interwebs has it but I usually have questions that scamazon won't answer.
Mouser or Digikey are your friends here.
You pay a little more than the cheap stuff on Amazon but you can be sure you're getting the exact specs you ordered.
Mouser really is to me a neat lil store. You get in, ask the guy in the counter for the exact stuff you want, they type one or two things in a computer, check if that’s actually what you want and in less than 5 minutes they fetch it
That's not how websites work
They have physical locations?
Stuart Little himself rings you up
Technically, yes, websites have physical locations in that they are hosted such that, no matter how many levels of containerization and virtualization there are, they eventually run and exist in some way on physical hardware.
No, as in Mauser has physical retail stores
Do they? I thought they sold their firearms through dealers.
If it's important... Double check the output with a meter just to be sure. Only got burned by it once, but for expensive/complex circuits, just give the critical components a sanity check.
A few years back, I tried shopping for a replacement one. Figured I'd go to Walmart and find one of the barrel-plug hydras that used to be everywhere.
Just trying to explain the concept to the zygote in the electronics section was like I'd beamed down from an alien planet.
Thrift stores, maybe? It's been like a decade since I've been inside a thrift store, so idunno if they still have these