Test Equipment in Silicon Valley - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 12:57:42 am
content: Anywhere I can go to purchase used test equipment? Weirdstuff has a piss poor selection, and HSC is so overpriced.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 01:48:36 am
content: what are you looking for ?company auctions are the way to go , but you need to know when those are and where. keep your eye on bankruptcy notices in newspaper and the auction sites.That's where i get all my stuff , but that only works if you live in silicon valley as you need to be on-site the day of auction... pay cash and haul it out the same day.Dovebid and others.Walk-in stores have piss-poor selection at exorbitant prices .... even the swapmeet is very pricey unless you go early and find someone who doesn;t know what he hase like a parts broker.there are a couple of recycling outfits where you can do deals but you have to go over there and dig through the pile. those guys are only open on weekdays so you need to be willing to take a day off. there is a bunch of those in the valley as well as places like fremont and towards gilroy.Again : of no help as those you need to be physically here. those guys have no website and are known through word of mouth only. you have to go there during their business hours. they are never open on weekends.I filled my car two weeks ago. Anything was one dollar. I spent about 120 $.One box had 15000 led's in it. Whole roll of 1n4007 diodes (5000 diodes on reel) 1$. same for a roll of 1n4148 diodes. bag with 1000 capacitors Chemicons. 1000uf 16 volt : i got about 50 bags with capacitors varying between 500 and 2000 caps per bag various values and voltages. A tray of DPDT relays , NAIS dual coil ( latching ) . these relays are like 6 or 7$ a pop at digikey. 200 relays in a tray.. 1$ for the tray.i was pissed off as another dude found a box with semiconductors #@$%^$$#@@ whole tubes and trays with expensive opamps , microprocessors , IGBT's, power mosfets. he bought the whole box for like 40$. there was probably more than 10000$ in parts in that thing. i saw some trays with big xilinx fpga's in that box....and this was all brand new vacuum sealed stuff. some with digikey label or avnet labels on it. surplus from a big production run.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 02:41:04 am
content: Where are these places? I would love to go to one. I am a student, and it is thanksgiving break, so I am in Silicon Valley.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 02:55:19 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on November 26, 2013, 12:57:42 amTry ebay. Not the headquarter, the website. It serves also Silicon Valley.Seriously.

author: Rory
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 03:12:08 am
content: De Anza College flea market in Cupertino. First Saturday of every month.http://www.deanza.edu/fleamarket/general_info.html<edit> Not a lot of electronics stuff at these but occasionally a vendor has some.What you really want is the one that his held on the 2nd Saturday, except in the winter. Sorry.http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 04:02:00 am
content: you are in SV now ?i sent you a private message.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 04:04:09 am
content: Yes. I will be here until Friday night.

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 04:22:49 am
content: Did you poke around the back room of Weird Stuff?You might as well go by Excess Solutions and get some free resistors... and once in a while they have test equipment. I have bought plenty of $5 scope probes there.I have heard that Remington Test has OK deals, but haven't made it there yet.P.S. Does anyone know if Dan Burtis is still around?

author: Fluxed Matter
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 11:33:52 pm
content: The DeAnza Electronics fleamarket is only held from March to about October.

author: linux-works
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 04:54:12 pm
content: spectratest is one place that has a LOT of cool stuff (used, tested) for sale. I bought a fluke 45 there, once.they are near mtn view, ca.