Matha Electronics — Local services in Perumanoor

Electronics component shop from about a decade or more. Accessible via a flight of stairs, the small looking shopfront houses most of the required hobby and professional electronic components.

A fine thursday noonish in December was a relatively crowded time.

Roadside parking for two wheelers in front of no-parking boards maybe all that’s possible in front of the store. With 4 wheelers, may need to park in adjacent lanes and be lucky. Just a stone’s throw from Pallimukku bus stop though.

No proper queuing system- preferred people or those with better appeal gets served many a times ignoring the queue. If you have a written/printed list of components, give it and better come back a little later instead feeling ignored. Service can be improved here.

There is this uncomfortable and covid-era plastic sheet separating the counter from customer which is now scratched and hard to see/speak through that’s still present which makes interactions slightly hard- even for shorter people to bend and talk through the hand hole. Not sure if this is relevant anymore.

Bills and components come in via here. A separate cashier box exists to make payment and show the bills to get our components. Merchant QR available...

They have almost every electronic components available there . They also has a collection of Hobby circuits and circuits for project. But they sometimes charges double or triple the actual cost and also sells duplicate without mentioning ( sometimes sells duplicate instead of originals ) . Quality of the products is not satisfiable most of the times. Its usually very busy here .

Once my friend bought a raspberry pi cam from there. They charged the price of original but the device was a duplicate . At the same time, during the query at a near by shop called Thomson , they told the product with them is a duplicate and only charged the correct amount.I had similar experiences then and before .

The same airpump worth 165 rupees at Thomson was charged 300 rupees at Matha. The funniest factor is that everybody goes there and they are famous for electronics. Don't know how !!! After this much...

Literally spent 400 ruppees for a high voltage generator module for a project and it worked for 1 day. And when I bought it, he said I should power it with compatible battery or it'll get damaged and I immediately told him to give me the "compatible" battery and he gave me one, bought it home and used it and it did generate 10-15kv and I was testing it. But the next day as I was trying to do the project, it literally stopped working... Which wasn't normal and I called him. The guy told me that he can do nothing about it and said that it needs the specific battery to operate smoothly. And as I told him that I bought the battery from there too, he hanged up the call + the pricing in website and in shop is...