Not surprising. I'm not impressed by the compliance folks. OTOH, I wouldn't do that job.
I meant for business use. I always had to plan my purchases at least a year in advance. Sometimes the plans were only placeholders, but our planning cycle was three and five years.
It does, and yes, it does. How about a 12/24V transformer? ;-)
=46or a prototype it might be useful, i wouldn't dare use it for real production. But this product is targeted at hobbyists. Which in a sense was really the point, cheap reflow for hobbyists.
Supposively Maxim has changed their policy about 1 year ago. Will now use subdealers which makes it possible for the small buyers to get their parts and much more aware of their clients. But, is this true. Any one with fresh experiences?
One of my litmus tests is Digikey. I just did it again, selected the category "Voltage Regulators - Switching DC DC Converters & Controllers" and then only Maxim. PWM chips is most of the Maxim stuff I have designed out for clients.
Without clicking the "in stock" box: 1199 hits. After clicking the "in stock" box: Poof ... down to 165.
They have promised so many times that it gets better and then it didn't, so I really don't believe them anymore. I think it takes more than a policy change, it takes upper management changes at Maxim.
In the end Digikey is similar to Walmart. If they don't have someting in stock then, for the vast masses, de facto it doesn't exist :-)
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