Grrrrrrr

[Greg Neff]

On 1 Feb 2005 04:50:29 -0800, Winfield Hill
<hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote:

Greg Neff wrote...

I will say this for Tyco. They do stand behind their products. They
are also quick to respond to technical issues. I posted a drawing
error report to their site one afternoon, and by the next morning I
had received a chain reply showing that my comments had already gone
overseas and back again through several people.

But, did the drawing get fixed, and if so, how much later?

I just checked, and yes, it did get fixed. I don't know how long it
took because I had no need to get it again (I had already figured out
the correction).

I have done this twice now with Tyco, and in both cases the drawings
have been corrected.

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Greg Neff
VP Engineering
*Microsym* Computers Inc.
greg@guesswhichwordgoeshere.com

 

[Active8]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:36:13 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
<snip>

It's 75? The Newark page shows it as 50 ohms.

What a brain fart! I guess 75 was stuck in my head from the
Pasternack catalog. That's not good.

http://www.newark.com/product-details/text/CD121/8878.html

But I've never really understood how a connector as small and bad as a
BNC can have a defined impedance... most 50 ohm mated BNCs are already
nasty at 1 GHz or so.

But that doesn't stop the mfg from spec'ing them to 4 GHz.

--
Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in
message news:lcivv0t76miv46mkphk9jpjs4htgh8ab8q@4ax.com...

I seem to hear Europeans complaining a lot about how hard it is to get
parts.

Thats because "you people" keep distributers lean, mean and hungry while
ours are spoiled, bloated and generally do not give a rat's arse about an
order unless:

The comission is big enough to be used as the downpayment for a new
Mercedes,
The order is from a business well-connected enough to really work the
distributor over!

They still whine about prototypes - often it is faster to just pay 10 times
more at Farnell/RS even for their "own-brand (i.e. picked from some reject
bin and relabelled) parts" than to bother with *weeks* of delay on small
collection of parts.

A few of the majors *are* good though (or have people, who are good, I don't
know what).

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:24:24 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

The AMP web site is absolutely, totally, stupidly useless. If you
don't already know the part number of what you want, you'll never find
it.

I guess all those Tyco companies are just fronts for stock scams.

John

Update: since "contact AMP" doesn't work, I sent complaints to
"sales", "help", "webmaster" etc at amp.com and tyco.com. Somebody in
India assigned a ticket number, and I just got a message telling me
the issue has been resolved! That makes me so much happier.

The message includes a link to check on the status of the ticket; the
link is of course broken.

This link is not:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2004-04-06-tyco-belnick_x.htm


John

 

[keith]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:35:21 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:24:24 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

The AMP web site is absolutely, totally, stupidly useless. If you
don't already know the part number of what you want, you'll never find
it.

I guess all those Tyco companies are just fronts for stock scams.

John

LOL> I've been swearing at connector companies all week. I finally
solved the problem by getting in my car, going out and buying a
sample, taking it apart, and sticking the part number into google. ;=)

I few years back I had some "issues" with a PCI I/O flange. I couldn't
get the board house to "get" what I was asking for. I was visiting (I was
there - 20000 mi away - 1.5 times a week cheching on things) and they
showed me the layout. I got a little irked because they *clearly* didn't
have a clue (they had some compact PCI spec they were trying to use), so I
ran out to the Best Buy down the road and bought the first PCI card I
could find with the flange I wanted. The droid at Best Buy was rather
confused when I said I wanted a PCI card with a DB25 and DB9. "What kind
of PCI card?" "I don't really give a rat's ass!" "I want a PCI card and
I don't reall give a crap what it costs!" I ended up with a SiiG
parallel/serial card (for something like $70) and all was well. "Oh,
*that's* what you wanted!"

--
Keith