News from Farnell

[Jim Patchell]

    Who manufactures the capacitors?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

    -Jim

jorgen.bergfors at idg.se wrote:

> Hi DIYers!
> I just got a new catalog supplement from Farnell. It has 6000 new products and I found a couple of interesting things in there:
> Polystyrene capacitors with 1% tolerance and 110 +- 60 ppm/C tempco. The prices are very reasonable: around $0.60 for 47 to 8200 pF.
> Potentiometers with conductive plastic from Spectrol. These are about the same price and size (=small) as the popular Alps pots. They have a flatted 6 mm shaft and cost a little over $2. Any ideas if conductive plastic is supposed to be better than Alps carbon ones?
>
> /Jorgen