More semi-interesting pot news
2008-09-02 by Paul Schreiber
Looking at the Spectrol prices now, Mouser is asking over *$7 each* for the 148/149 pots! They used to be $3 each. So, what I am will probably do is for new stuff, switch over to all 'blue Bourns' pots. I can get 100K linear pots with a 6 week lead time for <$3ea and the min order is 200. This is perfectly manageable and allows me to keep those big ugly Tyco PKES knobs :) I can't see anyone in the entire US that stocks 1M log pots in the 91A series. Sigh......... I have plenty of the Spectrol pots for the existing kit and assembled backlog, but looking forward I will have to raise assembled module prices about $20ea to cover my cost when I have to reorder the Spectrol pots later this year. I just ordered more 3.5mm Cliff jacks for Frac and those prices went up 65% since last spring. Crap............ Paul S. time to walk dog, drink Dr. Pepper, mutter