Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: sizing transformer for servo system ?

Mark Vaughan wrote:

>I don't know where you are Dave, but in the UK there are loads of
>Transformers kicking around cheap that are not Rohs compliant (lead free).
>Rapid Electronics had loads, I bought my reservoir caps from them, got six
>for the price I would have expected to pay for two.
>
>Also in the EU, a CNC machine is a control and measurement system and exempt
>from RoHs until 2008
>
>I am told the USA are going RoHs compliant in January so there may be some
>cheap stuff over there, though I can find nothing written regarding this
>date.
>
>

I don't think there's anything big happening here THIS January. On the
other hand, the
electronic industry has basically folded up its tent and moved to
China. It is getting
increasingly difficult to get ANYTHING here anymore. I buy some parts
for a prototype,
get it working, and then try to get the same parts for a production run,
and am told
"no longer available"! It happens time after time!

Jon