rlaury
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I found out Perkin Elmer sold their Vactrol line. Who ever bought it has since sold it again.
Does anybody know if anybody is making them now?
Does anybody know if anybody is making them now?
jhulk said:xvive brought the factory line and are doing rohs versions
gyraf said:Sadly, the rohs-compability seems to be an outright lie - there has never yet been any compliant optos. Yes, some companies claim to be compliant, but it always turns out to be by cheating on certification - like e.g. "Macron" who tried to corner the market by claiming compatibility at the EU stakeholder hearings (and who later was found to be fraud).
Jakob E.
gyraf said:Well yes, you can still get the crappy ones from China.
But.
You can't get the predictable and known-good types. And you can't sell anything that uses them.
Jakob E.
ROHS is self compliance. Commercial products that don't regularly end up in the dumpster
can contain trace amounts of restricted elements. The spirit of the rule is to restrict consumer
items
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