🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <pan.2009.07.23.19.06.53.738790@example.net>, Rich Grise <richgrise@example.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:59:19 +1000, David L. Jones wrote:
>> ...
>> Any know the real reason(s) why ceramic SMD caps don't have markings?
>
>Money.
>
>It's way too expensive to mark teeny tiny little parts that nobody's 
>ever going to look at anyway - the reels are clearly marked, and they're
>loaded into the stuffing machine, and that's the last human interaction
>the parts will ever see.
>
>If you're hand-prototyping, you'd either have to mark them yourself
>or mark the tape carrier or bin or envelope where you're keeping them.

I learned how to solder the little resistors, and that requires the microscope.
They still look small. The iron looks like a bat and the tweezers a claw, and
the little resistor looks like a speck.

I would need a stronger scope to read any lettering on it.
Some larger parts have little two letter codes on them and I don't even want to know what they mean.

greg