Re: Cordless drill speed control chip burnt out. Can anyone identify it from this?



If you want to learn about electronics, don't ever go to Maplin. You
will be told and sold a load of rubbish.

Here's somewhere else you can try if Farnell, RS, CPC etc are tricky
with one off small quantities:

http://www.cricklewoodelectronics.com/Cricklewood/home.php



Gareth.


How do you get on with Cricklewood these days, Gareth ? I used to use
them a lot, but since they became part of that bigger group, I seem to
have had endless problems with items not being in stock - although you
don't get to know it until the delivery is missing that item - and then
having to wait sometimes a couple of weeks or more, until they can get
it. A couple of times, that caused me embarrassment with a customer, when
I had told them when their repair would be ready, based on having ordered
a part from them, only for it not to turn up, so recently, I have stopped
ordering from them.

Arfa



Well funny you should say that cos up til now they have been fine.
Haven't used them for a couple of months or so now, but I Internetted an
order yesterday for some Power transistors and a hard to find driver -
this morning I received the power transistors but not the now even harder
to find driver :( And no explanation either, just that missing line
highlighted in luminous green.

I wasn't aware they had been taken over, perhaps this is the end of what
was a very useful company to know (I could usually find all the odd
transistors/old DRAMs etc I ever wanted)


Gareth.


To be honest, I am not absolutely certain that Cricklewood have been taken
over. The work that I do mostly at the moment, calls for components from the
likes of Farnell and RS. It was a colleague who told me that Cricklewood
were no longer owned by the original people, when I mentioned the 'short'
deliveries I had received a couple of times.

Another 'small' company that used to be very good, were Grandata, but they
have definitely been taken over by some larger group, who seem to have
rationalised the stock. I no longer use them, as it had reached the point
that every time I rang them to check a stock position on an item, it came
back as nil.

For 'oddball' chips, including some of the esoteric types used on SMPS, you
might try Dalbani / Nikko

www.dalbani.co.uk

Again, their deliveries can be a bit variable, but they do carry a lot of
less mainstream parts.

Arfa


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