Drat! I’m not at home with my stack of electronics catalogues, how am I going to order that electronics part I need? Once I get it, wouldn’t it also be great to have a datashet and can I get that on my iPhone right now?
In steps Octopart, the electonics part search engine. Go try it. It’s a beautiful thing. – Link
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I’m not sure what sort of pdf viewer comes on the iphone, if any. I know you can get many of these datasheets from a site called the DatasheetArchive.
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This might be a bit off topic but the nice thing about buying new electronics is they have a warranty. You are buying something that has moving parts or electricity going to it so it has the potential of breaking, there is nothing you can do but replace it, that does not mean the company that made the product sucks, it means the individual item sucked!