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| Bud:
--- Quote from: Neilm on May 11, 2019, 05:00:25 pm ---Not so long ago there was a motion to remove markings from resistors. It would save money not having another step in the production. --- End quote --- All of 0603 resistors I bought lately from Digikey came unmarked. |
| T3sl4co1l:
Like I said, epoxy (heat or UV cure) or enamel (fired ceramic) would be entirely plausible, if all the other conditions for feasibility are met of course. :) --- Quote from: Bud on May 12, 2019, 05:40:39 pm ---All of 0603 resistors I bought lately from Digikey came unmarked. --- End quote --- Panasonic? I have a few Panasonic that are unmarked (just black enamel). Digikey sells a dozen brands of chip resistors, that's not very specific! Tim |
| schmitt trigger:
Money. MLCCs are produced and sold by the Gazillions. Even if you reduce a milliDollar or a milliEuro from its manufacturing costs, it will be serious money by the end of the day. Also as other poster noted, big customers will always machine-place them, and as long as the reel has a barcode or RFID tag that a machine interface can read, it is sufficient identification. And because electronics nowadays are essentially intended to be non-repairable, not by the end users at least, it does not matter it can't be identified once that it is soldered to the board. I sometimes visit a PWBA-assembly house. They have many tape tails, containing a few components at most, which they simply discard. They have allowed me to take some of those tails, and back home with the help of a capacitor tester equipped with tweezers, I have been able to sort and identify those tails. Sufficient to say that I haven't required to purchase any 0.01uF, 0.1uF or 1uF MLCCs in several years. |
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