New farnell website

It seems to be a less bad, still wont fit into a screen without a
scroll bar at the bottom (firefox)

They have a feedback link to ask what "we" think and I was thinking of
asking for "point us to an error on product description", so a bit
wiki like.

Or should I get out more?


martin

 

Don't get your hopes up that anyone will care, or even read. The art of
efficient web site design has been lost, for the most part. No hay mucha
esperanza, at least not in corporate web sites :-(

 

In space, no one can hear you scream.

but

I was looking for some adjustable shunty type regulators on Linear,
and found their search engine a bit of a mess, so I shot off a comment
to Linear, I had a reply in a day or so, from Mistress Web.

It's not all bad

Linear's cool


martin

 

Martin, what's the screen resolution?

Michael

 

1024*768. fujitsu/siemens laptop, only used for the web/datasheets
etc.


martin

 

Opera at 1400*1050 OK (brand spanking new 20" LCD!)
Opera at 1024*768 OK.
Opera at 800*600 and scroll appears.
So, Opera and anything above 800*600 is no scrollbar.

 

greeen with envy.....

sounds good, but I'm pretty happy with firefox, and I wont change just
for one website, but I'll try another PC tomorrow, to see if there is
a difference

zzz time, in garlic land


martin

 

I used it in anger today, it is better than the old one and the old one was
a mile better than RS Components java script link ridden crap.

They first put up the new site a couple of weeks ago over the weekend. Was
down on Saturday, new site Sunday, back to old site Monday - guess they had
problems lol.

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I was going to suggest something similar but haven't got around to it. They
occasionally have errors in the parametric data such as the wrong GBP for
an op-amp. I was planning to suggest a simple feedback option for customers
to point out errors in the parametric data.
They have been a few occasions when I've wondered why a particluar
component wsn't showing up in the parametric search and it's been because
the data was wrong. One version of the AD8045 is currently listed as 1MHz
GBP when it should be 1GHz.

I'm using 1024*768 in Win2k with Firefox 2 and it looks fine. Is your text
size in Firefox set to larger than standard? If I increase the text size by
two steps I get the horizontal scroll bar.

Farnell's site was always better than most sites of other suppliers and
manufacturers but the new version is even better. The speed increase is
quite noticable.

 

well, we do spec the bits we need, so if they cant get their nibbles
organised....


martin

 

The RS site is one of the worst I've used, the javascript links make it
extremely inflexible. I was recently trying to find out what range of high
(highish) voltage op-amps were readily available for a one-off test
circuit, I tried the RS site and looked at the the supply voltage options
(apologies for posting all the below, I'm just stunnned at how ridiculous
it is):

+1.4 to +16 [2]
+1.6 to +36 [5]
+1.8 to +12 [1]
+1.8 to +12V [1]
+1.8 to +24 [2]
+1.8 to +32 [2]
+1.8 to +5 [4]
+1.8 to +5.5 [11]
+1.8 to +6 [2]
+2 to +44 [2]
+2.1 to +5.5 [2]
+2.2 to +36 [2]
+2.2 to ±22 [2]
+2.3 to +5.5 [3]
+2.3 to+ 5.5 [1]
+2.4 to +5.5 [1]
+2.5 to +10 [5]
+2.5 to +12 [5]
+2.5 to +12.6 [3]
+2.5 to +15 [1]
+2.5 to +5.5 [17]
+2.5 to +6 [3]
+2.6 to +10 [2]
+2.7 to +10 [10]
+2.7 to +11 [1]
+2.7 to +12 [12]
+2.7 to +15 [2]
+2.7 to +15.5 [2]
+2.7 to +16 [12]
+2.7 to +24 [5]
+2.7 to +36 [4]
+2.7 to +5 [5]
+2.7 to +5.25 [2]
+2.7 to +5.5 [25]
+2.7 to +6 [15]
+2.7 to +6.5 [4]
+2.7 to +8 [5]
+2.7 to ±6 [1]
+3 to +12 [12]
+3 to +12.5 [1]
+3 to +12.6 [6]
+3 to +12.8 [2]
+3 to +15.5 [8]
+3 to +16 [25]
+3 to +26 [5]
+3 to +30 [6]
+3 to +32 [11]
+3 to +36 [8]
+3 to +44 [9]
+3.15 to +11 [1]
+3.6 to +9 [1]
+4 to +16 [5]
+4 to +28 [3]
+4 to +44 [1]
+4.5 to +12 [3]
+4.5 to +15 [6]
+4.5 to +16 [6]
+4.5 to +33 [1]
+4.75 to +15.5 [3]
+4.75 to +16 [1]
+5 to +12 [4]
+5 to +15 [2]
+5 to +22 [1]
+5 to +24 [6]
+5.5 to +36 [2]
+6.6 to +15 [1]
+9 to +32 [1]
-12 to +12V [1]
1.8 to 24V [8]
1.8 to 32V [2]
1.8 to 5V [2]
13V [6]
2.5 to 12V [1]
2.5 to 16V [1]
2.5 to 5.5 [1]
2.5 to 6 [8]
2.5 to 6V [2]
2.7 to 12V [6]
2.7 to 24V [3]
2.7 to 5.5 [1]
2.7 to 5.5V [10]
2.7 to 5V [4]
2.7 to 8 [1]
3 to 12 [3]
3 to 12.8V [2]
3 to 12V [1]
3 to 15.5V [5]
3 to 15V [9]
3 to 30V [1]
3 to 36V [1]
3 to 44 [1]
3 to 44V [5]
3 to ± 16V [3]
3 to ±18 [1]
3 to ±18V [6]
3 to ±22V [1]
3 to30V [1]
36V [17]
4.5 to 5.5 [2]
44V [6]
5 to 12V [1]
5 to 15V [7]
5 to ±15V [1]
7.5V [1]
7V [1]
9 to ±16 [1]
± 2.5 to ± 18V [1]
±0.8 to ±18 [2]
±1 to ±8 [7]
±1.2 to ±18 [1]
±1.25 to ±8 [1]
±1.25 to ±8V [1]
±1.5 to ±15 [1]
±1.5 to ±15V [9]
±1.5 to ±16V [1]
±1.5 to ±18 [2]
±1.5 to ±22 [1]
±1.5 to ±6 [2]
±10 to ±45 [1]
±15 [24]
±15 to ±18 [3]
±15V [3]
±18 [2]
±18V [16]
±19V [1]
±2 to ±15 [2]
±2 to ±18 [4]
±2 to ±18V [2]
±2 to ±20 [1]
±2 to ±22 [3]
±2 to ±8 [1]
±2.2 to ±8 [14]
±2.25 to ±16 [1]
±2.25 to ±18 [2]
±2.25 to ±19 [11]
±2.25 to ±5.5 [2]
±2.25 to ±6 [2]
±2.25 to ±6.5 [1]
±2.4 to ±8 [1]
±2.5 to 18V [2]
±2.5 to ±12 [1]
±2.5 to ±13 [1]
±2.5 to ±15 [9]
±2.5 to ±18 [6]
±2.5 to ±6 [10]
±2.5 to ±7.5 [1]
±2.5 to ±8 [2]
±2.5 to ±8V [1]
±2.75 to ±17 [1]
±20V [1]
±22V [2]
±3 to ±12 [2]
±3 to ±20 [4]
±3 to ±22 [1]
±3 to ±5 [3]
±3 to ±6 [1]
±3.3 to ±6 [1]
±3.5 to ±15 [12]
±3.5 to ±18 [45]
±3.5 to ±18V [3]
±3.5 to ±19 [1]
±4 to ±18 [4]
±4 to ±6 [5]
±4.5 to ±15 [4]
±4.5 to ±16 [3]
±4.5 to ±18 [17]
±4.5 to ±18V [15]
±4.5 to ±24 [7]
±4.5 to ±5.5 [6]
±4.5 to ±6 [3]
±4.5 to±18V [1]
±4.75 to ±5.25 [2]
±5 [7]
±5 to ±15 [55]
±5 to ±15V [1]
±5 to ±18 [9]
±5 to ±20 [1]
±5 to ±22 [2]
±5 to ±24V [1]
±5 to ±6 [2]
±5.5 to ±15 [1]
±5.5 to ±15V [1]
±6 to ±15 [1]
±6 to ±15V [1]
±8 to ±20 [2]

Numbers in [] indicate number of op-amps in that section and each link has
to be followed individually. I just closed the page and decided to stick
with what I'd found at Farnell I could have spent an hour on the RS site
and still not found anything useful.

 

I placed an online order with another supplier today, the price breaks for
one part were

1+ 10+ 100+ 500+
£1.00 £1.40 £1.50 £0.90

Glad I needed less than 10.
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It's still no faster !

Graham

 

1280*1024 here still isn't wide enough.

1360 wide fixes it but has the wrong aspect ratio ( *768) . I'm not keen on
1600*1200.

Graham

 

I has a scroll bar with Opera @ 1280*1024 here.

It depends on the page results IIRC.

Graham

 

Tried it on my video editing PC, with a dual head ATI card at
1024*768, and did a search for LM741. Still get a scroll bar.


martin