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This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

John

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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:57:46 -0400, Meat Plow
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:04:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:


This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

John

Ugly soldering.

Sold over $2.5 million of them, and field reliability has been
excellent. These boards fire the world's biggest laser.

What do you do? Show us.

John

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Meat Plow wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


Ugly soldering.

There's MORE solder on it than I've seen in some contemporary consumer kit. I'd
hardly call it ugly though.

Is a kluge pronounced 'kloog' or 'kludge' btw ?

Graham

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:34:29 +0100, Eeyore
wrote:



Meat Plow wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


Ugly soldering.

There's MORE solder on it than I've seen in some contemporary consumer kit. I'd
hardly call it ugly though.

Is a kluge pronounced 'kloog' or 'kludge' btw ?

---
'Klooj', with the double o's pronounced as they are in
'tool'.


--
JF

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John Fields wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Meat Plow wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


Ugly soldering.

There's MORE solder on it than I've seen in some contemporary consumer kit. I'd
hardly call it ugly though.

Is a kluge pronounced 'kloog' or 'kludge' btw ?

---
'Klooj', with the double o's pronounced as they are in
'tool'.

Thank you. UK practice is 'kludge' both written and spoken.

Graham

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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:04:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


And play checkers "on the side"? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:07:58 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:57:46 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:04:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

Ugly soldering.

Sold over $2.5 million of them, and field reliability has been excellent.
These boards fire the world's biggest laser.

What do you do? Show us.


THEL? Or Inertial Confinement fusion?

Thanks,
Rich

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:34:29 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
Meat Plow wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

Ugly soldering.

There's MORE solder on it than I've seen in some contemporary consumer
kit. I'd hardly call it ugly though.

Is a kluge pronounced 'kloog' or 'kludge' btw ?


The correct pronunciation is 'clooge' which rhymes with 'stooge'.
'Kludge' rhymes with 'sludge'.

Hope This Helps!
Rich

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:36:31 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
John Fields wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Meat Plow wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

Ugly soldering.

There's MORE solder on it than I've seen in some contemporary consumer
kit. I'd hardly call it ugly though.

Is a kluge pronounced 'kloog' or 'kludge' btw ?

'Klooj', with the double o's pronounced as they are in 'tool'.

Thank you. UK practice is 'kludge' both written and spoken.

Yeah, but in the UK, they misspell '****', which rhymes with 'bit',
as '****e', and apparently, it rhymes with 'white'.

Those Brits just don't know how to speak proper English. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:40:47 GMT, Rich Grise wrote:

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:07:58 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:57:46 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:04:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

Ugly soldering.

Sold over $2.5 million of them, and field reliability has been excellent.
These boards fire the world's biggest laser.

What do you do? Show us.


THEL? Or Inertial Confinement fusion?

Thanks,
Rich

NIF.

John

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:39:46 GMT, Rich Grise wrote:

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:04:29 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


And play checkers "on the side"? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

The board house did that, don't know why. Maybe they liked the look.

We just gave them the Gerber for one tiny board, and told them what we
wanted to do. Routing halfway through the PTHs is apparently a common
thing to do. It worked fine.

John

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Rich Grise wrote:

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:36:31 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
John Fields wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Meat Plow wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

Ugly soldering.

There's MORE solder on it than I've seen in some contemporary consumer
kit. I'd hardly call it ugly though.

Is a kluge pronounced 'kloog' or 'kludge' btw ?

'Klooj', with the double o's pronounced as they are in 'tool'.

Thank you. UK practice is 'kludge' both written and spoken.

Yeah, but in the UK, they misspell '****', which rhymes with 'bit',
as '****e', and apparently, it rhymes with 'white'.

Those Brits just don't know how to speak proper English. ;-)

Strictly speaking, '****e' is used only for emphasis in derogatory coments such
as 'that's a real piece of ****e'.

Graham

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John Larkin wrote:
This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


The 9691 is non-stock in all versions at Digikey. Are you still not
tired of this mfg?

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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In article ,
Joerg wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


The 9691 is non-stock in all versions at Digikey. Are you still not
tired of this mfg?

298 in-stock at Newark - MAX9691ESA+

Still think Digi-Key is the only distributor in the country? If you
haven't looked at Digi-Key AND Newark AND Mouser, you haven't even begun
to shop.

--
Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by

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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:35:30 GMT, Ecnerwal
wrote:

In article ,
Joerg wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


The 9691 is non-stock in all versions at Digikey. Are you still not
tired of this mfg?

298 in-stock at Newark - MAX9691ESA+

Still think Digi-Key is the only distributor in the country? If you
haven't looked at Digi-Key AND Newark AND Mouser, you haven't even begun
to shop.

---
Also Allied, Arrow, and Future.


--
JF

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Ecnerwal wrote:
In article ,
Joerg wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

The 9691 is non-stock in all versions at Digikey. Are you still not
tired of this mfg?

298 in-stock at Newark - MAX9691ESA+

Still think Digi-Key is the only distributor in the country? If you
haven't looked at Digi-Key AND Newark AND Mouser, you haven't even begun
to shop.


Sure. However, IME a non-stock situation for all versions of a part at
Digikey is a warning sign. At least for me. OTOH this has also brought
me consulting work (design out) when people ignored such flags. Mostly
they were able to scrape together a few hundred but later it really hit
the fan, or in production speak a line stop situation.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:37 GMT, Joerg
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.


The 9691 is non-stock in all versions at Digikey. Are you still not
tired of this mfg?

The original design used a MAX9690, an SO-8 1 ns ECL comparator, and
there were two other sources, for slightly slower parts. The 9690 had
a bad fab problem and began failing after about a year of use. By that
time, the other sources were gone.

Maxim replaced it with the "drop-in" 9691, except that they added
back-to-back diodes across the inputs... on a COMPARATOR! So we had to
do the kluge board, with added diodes and stuff. As I mentioned, they
did sample us 3200 pieces of the 9691.

Analog Devices makes the best comparators lately, down in the 200 ps
sort of range. But none of this sort of stuff is multi-sourced.

John