Jon Elson wrote:
On 09/29/2010 09:23 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:


I've been looking for some Panasonic FM series low ESR caps. Digikey
showed a 25 week leadtime. I don't need them next year.



Yeah, i just placed an order for a Hall-effect current sensor. I
usually run into a lead time on those, but got 25+ weeks from all the
distributors. Fortunately, there was an outfit that had a few and was
searchable on the Google.

This is the new way, and those of us in the US are going to have to
get used to it. Never design a board until the parts are in your hands,
never order more boards than you have parts for, etc. I have had many
commodity parts like voltage regulators become obsolete, now I am
pretty paranoid about second-sourcing of everything.

Jon

I did some Mil-Spec PC board design back in the '80s.

What you said about having parts in hand was carved in stone back then.


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Richard Lamb