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Industry Circles => Sonic Craft => Topic started by: wroman214 on 4 Dec 2015, 07:54 pm
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I spent some time collecting parts to build a TubeLab SE power amp and where possible I ordered from you parts to populate the board and Cardas connectors and Neotec wire. I finally completed the amp last Sunday and turned on and nothing. This hobby is teaching me to be a tech the hard way. Discovered an open 270 Ohm 5 watt mills resistor. I always measure resistors twice,once while loading a bin with the pieces in order and once before soldering them in. I also use a thin curved needle nose pliers to hold the wire from the resistor and bend the wire after the pliers. Has there been any problems with Mills since going to Mexico? I have used them in the past and never had a problem.
Walt
wroman214@comcast.net
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I spent some time collecting parts to build a TubeLab SE power amp and where possible I ordered from you parts to populate the board and Cardas connectors and Neotec wire. I finally completed the amp last Sunday and turned on and nothing. This hobby is teaching me to be a tech the hard way. Discovered an open 270 Ohm 5 watt mills resistor. I always measure resistors twice,once while loading a bin with the pieces in order and once before soldering them in. I also use a thin curved needle nose pliers to hold the wire from the resistor and bend the wire after the pliers. Has there been any problems with Mills since going to Mexico? I have used them in the past and never had a problem.
Walt
wroman214@comcast.net
No problem with the parts from Mexico that I've used. Vishay moved production there after buying Mills.
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Walter,
Actually, they had issues when Huntington moved the MRA production to their Central Resistor division. And again, Vishay had issues once they moved the part to Juarez. I believe Vishay got a handle on things. At least for production after the 3rd quarter of 14'. If you feel you have a potential warranty issue, please contact us direct via our website.
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Good to know. Not really sweating one bad resistor.