Re: [avr-chat] AVRs in South Africa?

[Russell Shaw]

Rodney Arne Karlsen wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I'm kinda at my wits end. I am trying to 
> find somewhere in South Africa, preferably in Durban, to get Atmel AVRs in a 
> PDIP package. I contacted Arrow Altech and they only had surface mount, and 
> EBV wanted me to buy a minimum of like 300 and even then they took a week or 
> more to respond to my emails.
>
> Right now I am prototyping a device that we hope to produce in quantity later 
> on but for now I can only justify buying a maximum of 10 AVRs.  I'm looking 
> for proces on the parts below. The mega8 and mega48 parts are for 2 USB-ISP 
> units I wanna build for use in the workshop. The device I'm designing would 
> use the ATMega324 or ATmega644 device. 
>
> ATmega324PV-10PU
> ATmega324PV-20PU
> ATmega644PV-10PU
> ATmega644PV-20PU
> ATmega8L-8PC
> ATmega8-16PC
> ATmega48V-10PI
> ATmega48-20PI
>
> Any ideas where I can get these parts and how much they would be? If need be 
> I'll order them from outside the  country if I have to and I can get them 
> here pretty quickly.

I bypass all the idiots in Australia because they're a total pain to get
parts below a minimum high MOQ. I get a lot of stuff direct from Arrow Nth
America. They have a good search and online ordering function:

  http://www.arrownac.com/arrow

Beware that the minimum order for any single part is $30 IIRC, so it might
be a problem if you only need a couple each of a dozen different parts.

The postage isn't cheap, so it makes sense to consolidate as many parts
as possible into one order.