<azonenberg>
The resistors are $8.67 each @ qty 100
<azonenberg>
So $867 to order a MOQ of a given value
<azonenberg>
That's with digikey markup
<azonenberg>
11 week lead time
<azonenberg>
I currently plan to order a hundred each of 450 and 100 ohm
<azonenberg>
The rationale being, after that 11 weeks i am guaranteed to have *something * i can use to make initial production of the probes
<azonenberg>
if the 450 is better i'll use it, and the 100s i'll keep as spares for future R&D and/or my LeCroy differential probes
<azonenberg>
if the 100 is better, oh well
<azonenberg>
I'm out $867 and i'm ready to make a hundred probes
<azonenberg>
I also am thinking of ordering the PCBs soonish
<azonenberg>
$750 per hundred out of RO4350B was the rough cost I was given by my sales rep
<azonenberg>
I can either populate a 350 ohm 0201 + 100 ohm HML or 0 ohm 0201 + 450 ohm HML
<azonenberg>
in either case i can use the same PCB
<azonenberg>
I still have some other R&D I can do during the next few months - designing some kind of 3d printed storage/shipping cap to put over the (very fragile) exposed tip resistor so it survives in between uses
<azonenberg>
testing the experimental probe positioners
<azonenberg>
playing with a couple of different cable options
<azonenberg>
and beginning to write a manual
<azonenberg>
Just put in the order
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