[sdiy] No marking on resistors

[Quincas Moreira]

Those markings were tiny and cryptic anyways, I prefer measuring with my
meter or looking at a schematics :)

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 1:47 PM, bbob <fluxmonk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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