[sdiy] this chip shortage thing is crazy...

[Richie Burnett]

> Looks like they swiped the floor in every warehouse to find them...

(>.<)  I feel your pain!

The worst I ever got was 1000 green 3mm LEDs (ordered to re-stock a teaching 
lab).  They arrived in 5 boxes.  Each box contained several big plastic 
bags, and inside those were the LEDs.  Every LED in it's own little heat 
sealed plastic bag.  Many of which were actually on the wrong side of the 
heat sealing line and had subsequently fell out.  It took the technician the 
best part of an afternoon with a Stanley knife slitting all the bags open 
and tipping the LEDs out.  And then there was a mountain of plastic to 
dispose of!

-Richie,



-----Original Message----- 
From: Roman Sowa
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2021 11:45 AM
To: Synth-diy at synth-diy.org
Subject: [sdiy] this chip shortage thing is crazy...

Today I have received one of my orders from Microchip placed in March.
One part number, but I got it in 9 bags! Each contains chips from
different batch with different traceability code so I can understand why
they are separate, but it's still crazy. The bags contain between 7 to
180 chips. And those are full size 50x20 bags to fit regular tubes.
Imagine seven SSOP20 chips in a big bag.
Looks like they swiped the floor in every warehouse to find them...

It was also great fun to watch them change scheduled shippment date. At
the time of ordering they were in stock, so yes, I took them all. Next
they've sent me like 10 emails changing delivery date all over the place
between April 2021 and August 2022.
But I finally got them, yay!
Still a couple more orders expected anytime between tomorrow and summer
2022.

Roman
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