Elenco 365 Piece Resistor Kit - RK-365

This is a fun product :) When you open the box you'll see the tray is divided into several different sections. Each section has several baggies with individual values and a little slip of paper with the resistors values in it. The downside is that things can get mixed up really easily and it can take a while to dig through a compartment to find the value you're looking for. Still, this is a good resistor kit for the beginner at a fair price.

I have to say that I am very pleased with this resistor set. with 365 pieces and all of the most common values for breadboarding I have yet to need a resistor that isn't in this set. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to get started in electronics. The box comes with dividers and baggies with the appropriately labeled resistors in them. This makes it very easy to find the value you are looking for.

I quite like this little kit. I bought it years ago and it’s supplied all the resistors I’ve ever needed except for specialty high-wattage ones. You only get five of each resistance. It might have been nice if they had put higher quantities of more commonly used ones. But I like that these are half-watt. In a lot of small electronics projects you can get away with quarter-watt resistors, but these are beefier and so give you a little more versatility (and room for error). I stuck two little pieces of cardboard in my box to act as dividers, as you can see in the picture. I also like to store a resistor color codes cheat sheet card in the box. It might have been nice if the kit came with those items, but you can easily print your own reference card from the internet. And the bags are labeled with actual numbers, so you arguably never need to read color codes, but you do need to somehow distinguish between the four different ratings in each little bag. (Nonetheless, that’s a lot easier than ringing through a completely unsorted bin of 365 pieces!)You will want to have a breadboard if you’re working on little electronics projects. And you’ll probably want a soldering iron and some protoboards too. And you should really have a multimeter on hand so you can tell what’s happening. If you’re just doing little low-voltage battery-powered circuits then you don’t need anything fancy and you might take a look at the Aneng AN8008 but please don’t use a cheap meter on high-energy circuits like your household wiring.

Arrived on time and as described. Many different values of resistors come in the assortment. All resistors are sorted and labeled in bags for easy identification. Approximately 4 different values in each bag all sequentially sorted (1ohm 1.2ohm 1.5ohm 1.8ohm in bag one; 2.2ohm 2.7ohm 3.3ohm 3.9ohm in bag two; etc). All are 1/2W which is nicer than 1/4W because it can dissipate more heat before failing

I was disappointed that I have to go through each bag and separate the resistors to know what is what. I have used other vendors on this and they at least bagged the components separately. I guess it is not that big a deal, but I like to throw the parts in my bin and not have to worry about what resistor goes where, I had to do this with 4 resistors in a bag and my color perception is lacking, so colors are not always easy for me to distinguish.

If they hadn't of messed up I'd give it five stars. the box comes with a bunch of numbered bags with different resistors. Mine was missing bag 10 and 16 I believe (I'll have to check later to confirm) and had two bag 13's. It would be a great selection if they had all come. I hadn't touched this since I bought it and I just opened it because I needs a specific resistor for a project and it was supposed to be in the box but again that bag didn't come with it :(

Amazing little kit for those just getting into electronics and electronic prototyping! I love having an assortment of components for those time when you just need something for a one off project. This kit has saved my butt a couple of times when I would have had to order a new batch of parts!

My set (purchased October 2011) doesn't look like the one pictured. The cardboard box is flimsy. When the outer sleeve is removed, there is a label that describes each of the 18 numbered plastic bags (4 values in each bag). Inside each larger bag is 4 smaller plastic bags, each labeled with the values of the resistors inside.The main label is in three sections (6 bags in each section), In other words bags number 1-6, 7-12, and 13-18 are described with the contents in each bag. It's easy to find the resistor you want by identifying the large bag first, and then the smaller bag inside the large bag.To make this more convenient, I organized the 18 bags, and using 3 binder clips, I clipped the 6 bags of each set together in order, to make it easier to find resistors in the future. while it's not hard to find one bag out of 18, keeping them in order makes it trivial to organize the resistors.It's not great, but the cost is low, so it's hard to complain.