Rebecca said:It is our sincere goal to make the website as user friendly
as possible.
I've been personally burned four or five times. At this instant, we
can't ship over a million dollars worth of product because Maxim has
slipped their promised delivery date on MAX5205's. Do you know where
I can score a couple of hundred?
Some magazine... At this point, I'm inclined to think he said he
prefers sole sourced products since they have a higher ASP. I know how
he thinks.
Some magazine... At this point, I'm inclined to think he said he
prefers sole sourced products since they have a higher ASP. I know how
he thinks.
ASP... "Asking Sales Price"?
Michael
Average Selling Price.
dated Fri said:Hello Spehro,
Which somehow pre-supposes that there is enough stuff to sell...
Joerg said:Hello Spehro,
Which somehow pre-supposes that there is enough stuff to sell...
So they want a high ASP on large orders only (and 26 week lead times so
they are guaranteed to have sold it before they make it) - max ASP,
large volumes only (so they minimise production cost per unit and don't
have it sitting waiting for the guy with a 200 - 1000 order
requirement).
All mfrs run large volumes, of course, to minimise the cost per unit at
production, but they don't wait until they have an order for it, at
least for the area Maxim is in.
No wonder the stock is 'not doing really well' - other mfrs are willing
to keep that stock around for the '200-1000' (or the 500 next month,
10k 2 months later) order, and for that reason are popular amongst
designers.
Standard Maxim technique (in my experience) from the last at least 15
years. I personally wonder how much longer they can survive with this
attitude.
Cheers
PeteS
John Larkin wrote...
Can you use MAX5201 parts?
I would be happy to personally handle any requirements you have for
Maxim or Dallas parts. Biased as I may be, we do care very much about
our customers and their needs. Please give me a chance to prove you
wrong.
Joerg said:Hello Rebecca,
Well, here would be your perfect chance: How about getting John Larkin
(here in this thread) some MAX5205?
Hello Rebecca,
Well, here would be your perfect chance: How about getting John Larkin
(here in this thread) some MAX5205?
John said:No, I use the external Vref, at a goofy voltage, and it doesn't look
like I can overpower the internal ref. But I could use the 5204, which
just has different reset behavior from the 5205. I guess I'll ask for
some samples of them, too.
If anybody can score some 5204's or 5205's for me, I'll pay for them.
John
John said:They also seem to keep some of their parts out of distribution
entirely. So they make more money at the expense of the reliability of
supply to their customers.
John
afaict from the datasheets 5205 has an ref voltage of 4 to 5V and 1x
gain, 5201
has fixed internal reference of 2.5V but has a 2x gain, so output is 0
to 5V, so
the output range can't be far that off?
What reference is your reference? can't you just hack the software to
compensate
for the different reference?
Rebecca said:I would be happy to personally handle any requirements you have for
Maxim or Dallas parts. Biased as I may be, we do care very much about
our customers and their needs. Please give me a chance to prove you
wrong.
Then you should consider supporting normal US post for we international
customers. When I ordered the first bunch of IButtons and SMPS chips
so I could test my application (a scoring system for orienteering), the
order came to about $US200 IIRC. Then I had to pay $50 for you to pick
and pack them(!), $48 for DHL to deliver them, $AU46 for them to put
them through the non-required (but DHL's policy) customs check, and $10
for the privilege of DHL paying the customs check user-pays bill.
Your non-support of any method of international shipment other than DHL
*doubled* my cost, and I won't be coming back any time soon, unless I
can find the parts at Digikey (I couldn't on this occasion).
Clifford Heath.
