[Elecraft] To Inventory or Not....

[NB1B]

I'm one that weighs in with the need to inventory.  Just as someone
suggested, I inventoried each bag of parts and then put everything back in
that bag.  I didn't separate them at the initial inventory; that took place
when I got ready to build each board.  The biggest problem I had was with
the caps for the RF board; I just can't read the numbers on those blue caps!
I tried to, and after 30 minutes of only getting half way thru the stack I
had a splitting headache.

Were all the parts there?  My first inventory of the RF board caps left me
with about a dozen caps that didn't fit any description in the manual, with
about a dozen missing caps.  So I re-read the manual (page 9 in particular)
and did another inventory.  I found I had misread the numbers on some of the
caps, and misinterpreted the values on some of the caps I did see.  Not only
am I glad that I did this, but no when I go to put in a part- regardless of
what bin it comes from- I double check it before I solder it.

That hasn't stopped me from making a few construction mistakes, but its a
lot easier to catch a mistake in construction then to determine the wrong
part was installed after you're done and it doesn't work!

Dennis NB1B
K2 #2563