[sdiy] Doepfer jacks?

[Peter Grenader]

Responding to my own comment here:

I've shipped over 55 modules to date which use 12 Cliff jacks each.  that's
660 jacks.  I've had one failed jack and it turned out to be one of the old
ones mixed in the bag.  Feeling that it would be cheaper to purge the stock
than get modules back because of a friggin' crapped out jack, I went through
my entire bag of 1000 and found six others.

The new ones are good.


Peter Grenader wrote:

> Well, the US Cliiff guy told me it was form a crappy design, augmented by
> lousy manufacturing by the Cliff factory in Asia.  The have other
> manufacturing facilities which were not making defective jacks even with the
> old design.  Quoting Cliff here - don't shoot the messenger!
> 
> Cliff is willing to take back stock of unsoldered 'old' design jacks for a
> full exchange on the news ones.  If A. Sol is shipping with the old ones
> still they need not.  The problem is determining which is which.  You can
> see a difference in the spring design - but who in the hell wants to go
> through a huge bag and look for onesey's?  In the US< the minimum purchase
> qty is 100 pieces.  A lot of lookin' involved there.
> 
> If you'r not dong your won assembly, then the problem is even easier to
> purge.  You can send memo's, make diagrams and ask them to purge the old
> ones out - but who knows if it's gonna happen?
> 
> - P
>