Trying to figure out... at what point do you go from "designing things and assembling a BOM" to "putting together specific orders and getting quotes on things"

I wonder if we should start working this BOM into a digikey cart

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@Felthry Ahhh. What /are/ you building with expensive capacitors and whatnot?

@emanate A 10kW three-level buck converter, for research purposes.

The inductors and the cooling system are easily the most expensive parts of this project, unless we can get a really good deal on the inductor cores.

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