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| Faringdon:
Hi, Some time ago , i had contact with a company who wanted a 2kW PFC'd SMPS. They werent prepared to pay me to do it. But said if i could come up with a working prototype then they may consider this. So i layed out a board, did the 2kW PFC first. Used an interleaved PFC controller UCC28070 from ti.com. I had to order the chips from mouser or digikey. At first i ordered four, and one had a leg broken off and the other three were ESD damaged. Then i ordered in another two...and again, both were ESD damaged.......this was evident with me just putting their Vcc supply on them. I had also pre-ordered the ferrite cores for the LLC converter....but all these arrived with chunks smashed off them. Due to the expense of the lab that i was hiring, i had to then give up at that point. I wasnt ordering these chips as a "company" as such, just as an individual. So maybe the "junior" staff were allowed to pick my order?...i dont know? Either way, its a bad state of affairs if anything ordered which isnt "under a genuine company name" doesnt arrive in good condition. Maybe they thought i might be a terrorist or something? Has any other "individual" experienced the same thing?, may i please ask. |
| jc101:
:-DD :blah: :horse: |
| Gyro:
Oh FFS, how many more troll threads? :palm: |
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