MOTM

On 2006-09-12 23:01 -0500, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> I called Spectrol and talked to 3 different people for about 2 hours
> (I was having an anxiety attack of sorts). Yes, they have redesigned
> the 148/149 pots to be RoHS compliant. But then *old* 148/149 were
> also compliant. But, the new ones are *made in France* by another
> Vishay division called Sfernice. I guess this makes them "even more
> compliant".

You could do worse than ending up with Sfernice. Those guys have
been manufacturing high grade pots since at least the sixties.
Not that I have any personal experience of their products ;
they're rather too expensive for me.

> a) the pots are now white, not black

This is actually a good thing (for marking).

> b) the torque (force to turn the shaft) is 'stiffer' than the other
> ones.

I can imagine why this is a problem... Let me know if you have
trouble communicating with them. They must have plenty of English
speaking sales people now, though.

By the way, the company is named after the city so it rhymes
with niece. Sfehrneece, not sfurnice. :-)

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