| ??? 03/28/07 15:52 Read: times |
#136025 - RS selling faulty parts would not be new Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Not that there's any evidence, so far, that leans either way, but it shouldn't surprise anyone to find faulty parts (floor-sweepings) at RS.
In '80 or so, one of my clients, unable to get timely delivery from regular distributors, ordered a quantity of voltage regulators and some diodes from RS. Every one of the diodes was faulty, either shorted or open, and every one of the regulators was in one way or another, out of specified limits. Does this STAG programmer have a history of functioning properly? Does it program other parts correctly? How about other MCU's? Sitting on the shelf for a long time shouldn't cause packaged semiconductors any grief. Sitting in a RS shop, however, where they're subject to handling by customers, could expose an MOS part to considerable stress, ESD, for example. RE |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Stag 39 and Intel 87C51 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh dear! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RS selling faulty parts would not be new | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Shack or Spares? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Shack, for sure | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| My mistake | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ah. That's OK then. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| yeah they will do it for you | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You must have cheap limbs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| what about the opposite | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I find that if you are really stuck | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RS not my favourite anymore | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
DigiKey will ship USPS, IIRC | 01/01/70 00:00 |