[Ronja] Which parts you cannot get?

[Bruce M Simpson]

Hi Clock,

Howdy, bit of a long one this...

Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> I wonder if there are parts you cannot get and you would be willing to order by mail even if bank transfer in advance (IBAN, no Paypal) were required. I could then buy them in
> a larger amount and sell individually this way. The best way would be to bundle several parts into one order of course since this saves postage and the bank transfer fee.
>
>   

The following are scarce, in my experience, in supplies which 
individuals can easily acquire in the UK:

 * NE592 low noise high bandwidth op-amp
The UA733 seems to be an acceptable substitute? Farnell have the UA733.

 * 74HC133  13-input single NAND gate
This just seems to be out of fashion -- whilst Farnell have it, it's US 
stock and costs 18 UKP just to get shipped in.

 * HPWT-BD00-F4000 Lumileds Superflux
When a friend of mine spoke to a distributor, possibly Lumileds, about 
this part, he was told it was a special variant produced for a customer 
as a one-off.

I have however acquired some weaker Lumileds parts on the basis that 
Nebulus/Inferno is really the way to go for us, or so I believe, and 
visible light spectrum is more O.K. for demonstration and teaching purposes.

> Is it true that an IBAN bank transfer within Europe is now for free?
>   
Yes and no. The EU is meant to be bringing this in:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

Whilst the UK banking sector have adopted the IBAN, as the EU requires 
them to do, they don't appear to be doing anything about Euro-zone 
electronic payments...

...other than panicking and trying to push the problem onto the 
customer, that is:
    http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=417

The last time I asked my British bank about this, they were going to 
charge me 10 UKP to send a payment to Germany.

It's unacceptable, it has to stop, and it remains to be seen if the UK 
banks actually listen to the EU when the SEPA legislation comes into 
force next month.

cheers.........
BMS