I have an old design using this obsolete chip, and the customer wants just a few more to do some repairs on his equipment. I can do a new design using modern multipliers, but this will mean a new pcb layout and test. I'm starting to do that this week, but just on the offchance does anyone in this newsgroup (in UK if possible) have any old stock they might sell me?
Thanks,
"Tony Williams"
** Not for a 5Hz frequency shifter by any chance ?...... Phil
I will look around, but don't hold your breath! Meanwhile, PartMiner says they can get up to 97 pieces - you could get a quote on four or five.
There's tons of them for sale on eBay, for about $1 each, in lots of
10, 20, 40.
oops! I thought you meant to MC1496! Sorry.
Strixner and Holzinger seems to have them in small quantities, however rather expensive ~10 Euro/piece, but this seems to be acceptable in your case.
HTH Klaus
Thanks to both. I was offered up to £40 each for small quantities, with nebulous delivery times. So a redesign was started. Then someone rang back and offered 12 pieces at about £9 each, ex stock. Placed the order yesterday.
Good for you, Tony! Perhaps sometimes good things do come to those who wait!
BTW, what exactly does the phrase "ex stock" mean, and how'd it come about? It does have a nice ring to it.
The man rang me on Sunday morning no less, casually stating that he had found some stock in the UK and expected delivery to him would be Weds. This was in contrast to the other replies which all quoted a delivery of "5-7 days"..... which really means that they have found some, somewhere in the world, and are quoting an optimistic airfreight delivery time.
The result was so unexpected that I actually phoned back to check that it was MC1494 he had found, not the more prevalent MC1495.
I'm still half expecting something to go wrong.
Great story (so far), but were you going to exlain ex-stock? Is it the same as when we say in-stock, meaning they really have it, rather than that they can get their hands on it? What's the "ex" about?
"Winfield Hill"
** Wot a pommy dope !!" Yes sir - we have them in stock "
" Yes sir - we can supply them, ex stock".
Context, context, context, context, context ..............
...... Phil
1 : out of : FROM: as a : from a specified place or source ...
It just means that the parts are available from stock (and thus they are "in stock" from the stockist's pov). It's not like an "ex-parrot".
It's used similarly as a trade term. Eg. ex-factory (or ex-dock) means that the price includes transportation to that point of origin, and the buyer is responsible for costs incurred from there.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
"ex" = "from", used as "Delivery will be ex-stock".
They actually have it on the shelf.
........ and they arrived this morning. :)
Great, sounds like a good source. Maybe now you can tell us who you got them from?
See
A chap by the name of Chris Tredwell who runs a small one man company supplying components to amateur radio enthusiasts. An email recommendation as a result of this thread. He didn't have them in stock, but did the donkey work to find some in the UK. Order placed Monday, arrived Friday, exactly as promised.
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