How is your electronics laboratory or rework station dealing with surface-mount devices (SMD)?  The labs I know have shelves and shelves of SMD resistor and capacitor reels.  When an engineer or a technician needs an SMD, he has to go look for a particular reel for the right value, gets one or more devices from the reel and walks back to his bench or work station.  Or the SMD are stored in an array of small containers with lids.  In case of round vials with tight lids their access is tedious, and those vials take up substantial area and space.  With square plastic containers and their snap-to-close lids, the risk of mixing – oops! – the tiny and look-alike components is very high.  Now think about the whole process.  Many minutes spent to get a device that costs pennies.  Multiply those minutes by the number of components or changes of component value often needed during engineering debug, and you can see your company’s profit going down the drain, or your competitors beating your company in getting earlier to the marketplace.

Announcing the Mini-lab™ Book SMD storage system for labs and technician benches.  The entire SMD supply shrunk to less than a cubic foot, within your arm’s reach.

 It’s a book with four or more leaves, each leaf comprises up to 24 tubular compartments for easy storage and error-free retrieval of all sorts of SMD, from resistors to integrated circuits and power transistors.  Each compartment can store up to 7 strips (also called cut tapes) of 60 resistors each, or 420 SMD per compartment. Mini-Lab SMD books are made of durable - virtually unbreakable - polycarbonate, also known under Lexan^TM

 Each device is stored in their original cut tapes in a clearly labeled compartment, in logical order for easy retrieval.  The size of each leaf is 10.5 x 9”, just a wee bit smaller than the common three-ring binders.  A flap fastened with loop-and-hook dots prevents the strips of SMD from dislodging during transportation.

Mini-Lab SMD storage books come in different thickness, from 4 leaves for the thinnest to 20 leaves for the vertical book.  The latter is called Mega-Lab™ for its 480 compartments.  That’s most likely the only SMD storage book each engineer and technician will ever need on his bench. Active components (diodes, zeners, transistors etc...) are stored inside their original anti-ESD polypropylene strips so they're safe with the Mini-Lab SMD books.  We also have leaves with 14mm spacing for storing IC and power semiconductors. 

With the patent-pending Mini-Lab™ SMD storage system, now your electronics prototyping will be quick and error-free, saving steps and shorten time-to-market.  It will pay for itself many times over in a short time.  By the way, taking the Mini-Lab book home is just as easy, a good way to get an edge over the competition or to pursue your DIY electronics project on your kitchen table, without missing your family.

Compact and Portable

Mini-Lab books are the most compact and portable SMD storage available, just like a book is.  Engineers and technicians are familiar with walls of drawers and shelves of components necessary in lab work.  With tiny SMD, identification become a major problem, often requiring eye loup.  Yet in the context of prototyping or repair of electronic assemblies, errors cost plenty in debug time.  The Mini-Lab SMD storage system provides plenty of room for component labeling, from just values for resistors to key parameters for active devices.  Each strip of SMD can also carry small self-adhesive stickers for positive and error-free identification of each strip.  Being as portable as a light book, Mini-Lab SMD book can stay right on each technician’s bench or desk, saving thousands of steps over time.  Electronics entrepreneurs now can really operate from a kitchen table or a small room instead of needing an entire lab for prototyping.

Tremedous Timer Savers

While other SMD kit suppliers ship their resistor and capacitor kits in the thinnest plastic bags and have the buyers take care of storing, organizing, and labeling, the Mini-Lab series of kits (resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors etc...) come pre-organized and labeled, saving you hours of error-prone organizing and storing in vials or flip-top plastic containers.  Yet Mini-Lab series' pricing is comparable to that of large distributors.  Thus Mini-Lab SMD kits provide huge bargains and recurring savings for operators of electronics labs, production repair and rework stations, and garage-based entrepreneurs.

Satisfaction Guaranteed

We're confident you'll enjoy our error-free, easy, and efficient SMD storage and dispensing system that we offer 30-day no question-asked money-back guarantee.

Easy to Order

 For immediate purchase, please send an email with part numbers (see table below) and shipping address, and pay the merchandize amount plus a flat $7.00 shipping via Paypal to rfq@t-rexelectronics.com.   Or if you prefer a conventional  shopping cart,  please go here.

T-Rex Electronics
Email: rfq@t-rexelectronics.com
Phone 707-535-9431
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