Will SMD resistors marking become history?

[Steve Sousa]

Hello:

quote:
"Company YAGEO announced its intention to remove marking of RC/AC
0603,0805,1206 SMD chip resistors from July, 1-st, 2013"
link:
http://www.soselectronic.com/?str=1265


Just wondering about your opinion....

Best Regards

Steve Sousa

 

[Martin Riddle]

Hello:

quote:
"Company YAGEO announced its intention to remove marking of RC/AC
0603,0805,1206 SMD chip resistors from July, 1-st, 2013"
link:
http://www.soselectronic.com/?str=1265


Just wondering about your opinion....

Best Regards

Steve Sousa

Environmental reasons? Is white ink toxic?
We use KOA or Vishay anyway. doesnt really affect us.

Cheers

 

[Phil Allison]

"Steve Sousa"

"Company YAGEO announced its intention to remove marking of RC/AC
0603,0805,1206 SMD chip resistors from July, 1-st, 2013"
link:
http://www.soselectronic.com/?str=1265


Just wondering about your opinion....

** Speaking as a service tech - it sucks big time.

Any maker who ever wanted to prevent copying or repairs by anyone but a
chosen few knows that all you have to do is remove the part numbers from all
the semiconductors after manufacture.

Thankfully till now only a tiny, paranoid few have ever done so.

SMD products are hard enough to service even with fully marked components,
this move will make it impossible except with the full co-operation of the
makers and their overseas agents.

If pigs could fly ...



.... Phil

 

[DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno]

Hello:

quote:
"Company YAGEO announced its intention to remove marking of RC/AC
0603,0805,1206 SMD chip resistors from July, 1-st, 2013"
link:
http://www.soselectronic.com/?str=1265


Just wondering about your opinion....

Best Regards

Steve Sousa

Folks are doing fine with the smaller form factors, which have never
been marked, so the thought is why do we need any continued marking on
the larger form factors?

The intelligent among us will survive just fine.

 

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  Folks are doing fine with the smaller form factors, which have never
been marked, so the thought is why do we need any continued marking on
the larger form factors?

  The intelligent among us will survive just fine.

Might as well strip markings off all the other parts too, for the same
reasons. Who needs to know what parts are which? They're all exactly
the same, right?

What's all this part-marking stuff anyhow?

 

[hamilton]

With all this in mind,

is there a web page with SMD markings to real part numbers ??

I have some parts that I misplaced the data sheet...... ;-)

hamilton

 

[Boris Mohar]

Hello:

quote:
"Company YAGEO announced its intention to remove marking of RC/AC
0603,0805,1206 SMD chip resistors from July, 1-st, 2013"
link:
http://www.soselectronic.com/?str=1265


Just wondering about your opinion....

Best Regards

Steve Sousa

Maybe they will start using color code.


Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca

void _-void-_ in the obvious place

 

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Might as well strip markings off all the other parts too, for the same
reasons. Who needs to know what parts are which? They're all exactly
the same, right?

In many ways, resistors and capacitor markings are even more
important. If you mix up the feeders of other parts the guy watching
the reflow oven has a chance of find a big problem early in the
process. ;-) Not so much with resistors and caps.

What's all this part-marking stuff anyhow?

I never look at them (resistors and caps) but I'd think QC could use
the information.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Not sure if it makes much difference,
I sometiems double check with omh meter for small things I build anyway.
For large production quantities it may save a fraction of a cent per item
perhaps thousands of dollars if millions are made.
Repair shops SHOULD have the right drawings.
Re-use? I think not.

I had a $350 device fail, which I sent back for repair. They claim
it's "not repairable". Head office is in Taipei, service depot in the
US. I bet it's nothing that would take a decent service tech more than
15 minutes to fix- it works for a while then cuts out (probably a
power supply fault of some kind causing regulator shutdown). I had it
returned so I could look at it further.

Maybe I should trace out the circuit and post interesting bits of it,
since they don't seem willing to repair their stuff or supply
schematics. It's an RTD->Ethernet module.

 

[Phil Allison]

"Boris Mohar"
"Steve Sousa"

Maybe they will start using color code.

** Hmmmm -

has anyone thought that a " body- end-dot" system might be good for SMD ??



.... Phil