[sdiy] Peratech force sensors (was Wireless World Chatterbox pdfs?)

[Steve Lenham]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amos"
> Drat!  Perhaps they should have done more marketing / explanation of
> their product to industry... I'm honestly surprised that they didn't
> see more success in replacing expensive/elaborate mechanisms with
> their own simple solution... I thought of any number of good
> applications, provided the QTC substance behaves as advertised.  Shame
> they're not still in production, if true. :-(

It's only the standard products that aren't being made. I can understand 
their decision, even if it does frustrate me. One of the things they said in 
their response to me was that the majority of their customers wanted custom 
formulations, responses, firmness, etc. so they decided to concentrate on 
that side of things.

> In fact there's still one application for which I shouldn't lose the
> opportunity to experiment with QTC... if I can't find any still in
> stock with mouser/digikey/whoever's their US supplier, I may have to
> try Farnell or Maplin... do they sell internationally/to USA?

Farnell no longer have any of the Peratech products. Maplin have the "pills" 
and also their force sensing cable (in 100mm lengths only) but I really 
suspect that once they are all gone there will be no more. They talk about 
overseas shipment in their FAQs, so you should be OK.

Of course, if you are a _serious_ customer with a proper project, Peratech 
would supply you with engineering samples.

Cheers,

Steve L.