[sdiy] No marking on resistors

[bbob]

because who ever has to repair anything, right?  ending is better than
mending....


On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Roman <modular at go2.pl> wrote:

> As someone have predicted it not so long ago on this list, it's already
> happening.
> Vishay will not be putting any marking on their general purpose standard
> resistors, even the largest ones.
>
> "The marking of Vishay’s standard R-chips in the 0603 to 2512 case sizes —
> i.e. CRCW0603 – CRCW2512 with TCR of ± 200 ppm/K / 5 %, TCR of ± 100 ppm/K
> / 1 %, and TCR of ± 200 ppm/K / 1 %, 0.0 Ω — will be discontinued to
> improve the efficiency of the production process. Reel labels will enable
> product identification as before, and part numbers will not be changed.
> There will be no impact to the products’ performance or technical and
> environmental specifications (except the marking)."
>
> Later they explain that various marking styles common today are only
> causing problems by fooling AOI and that no marking is actually better
> obviously.
>
> So anything better than 1% and 100ppm will be still marked hopefully, at
> least for couple of years.
> The other makers will follow soon I guess.
> It would be good April Fools message if it was not a letter from March
> 28th.
>
> Roman
>
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