[Amps] Amphenol Connectors made in China

[Peter Chadwick]

Nearly 40 years ago, we had a CEO who insisted on the cheapest components. He bought 2N3866s from Microelectronics in Hong Kong: their beta was below the JEDEC spec and we were frequently short of drive and spent hours selecting and changing transistors. Of course, he blamed the deisgn department......BC108s from the same firm were likewise unreliable. It can be very hard to get over to management that it can be MORE expensive in the longer run to go for cheap labour/components/manufacturing.
One point to watch with connectors is that they get the threads right: there were N types appearing here, made in Taiwan, but where they'd used a metric thread rather than 5/8-32UNEF!

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Peter G3RZP