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From: David L. Jones on 24 Jun 2010 06:04 Anyone been caught out by this? http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLNE64N01X20100524 And someone posted this on my forum: "Northeast Electrical Distributors Reports a National Ballast Component Shortage June 23, 2010 Please be advised that there is a nation-wide shortage of Electronic Ballasts due to a world-wide electronic component shortage including capacitors and integrated circuits. Up until now this shortage has affected mostly standard T5 output ballasts. However it has quickly spread to High Output T5 and T8 ballasts as well. Regardless of ballast factor or starting features (programmed rapid start, instant start, etc) these ballasts are now all experiencing the same shortage. We have been told that it will spread further into HID and compact fluorescent ballasts as well as LED drivers and lighting control products. Be advised that this shortage is not limited to smaller vendors. All major vendors such as Acuity Brands, Sylvania, Cooper, Daybrite, and Lightolier are experiencing the same shortages. We have been warned that the ballast shortage is going to intensify over the next two months which is often times the busiest months of the year for our lighting fixture sales. This will cause significant delays in fixture delivery dates and will surely disrupt project scheduling and deadlines. We have already seen delays in some delivery dates as much as four weeks. As a result, we must anticipate continued delays and plan accordingly and we recommend that you pass this information on to your general contractors and clients. It is critical that projects be released as early as possible. Fixtures can always be released with a "do not ship before" date so that orders can still be sent to the factories ahead of time for proper planning. Jobs that have quick occupancy and fast turn over deadlines will be the most difficult to complete. Using alternate packages or taking fixtures from your distributors inventory of stocked fixtures can help combat some of those quick deadlines. Still, there may be times when your distributor will not be able to provide specific fixtures on time and delays will be inevitable." Dave. -- --------------------------------------------- Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast: http://www.eevblog.com
From: Winston on 25 Jun 2010 01:29 I predict that sometime in the next 52 weeks, *many* manufacturers will be very anxious to sell any reasonable quantity of components. Be patient, this wild economic expansion cannot last forever. --Winston
From: Jeroen Belleman on 25 Jun 2010 03:37 Winston wrote: > I predict that sometime in the next 52 weeks, *many* > manufacturers will be very anxious to sell any > reasonable quantity of components. > > Be patient, this wild economic expansion cannot last forever. Expansion surely not, but certain categories of economic actors have an interest in making waves, and I don't see how that will ever stop. Jeroen Belleman
From: Winston on 25 Jun 2010 09:51 On 6/25/2010 12:37 AM, Jeroen Belleman wrote: > Winston wrote: >> I predict that sometime in the next 52 weeks, *many* >> manufacturers will be very anxious to sell any >> reasonable quantity of components. >> >> Be patient, this wild economic expansion cannot last forever. > > Expansion surely not, I should have included a smiley, for I was attempting to suggest that any 'component shortage' has got to be a product of imagination rather than real. > but certain categories of economic > actors have an interest in making waves, and I don't see > how that will ever stop. I sometimes meet with vendors who fabricate stories too. Those meetings tend to be short and singular. --Winston
From: Nial Stewart on 25 Jun 2010 11:42
> I should have included a smiley, for I was attempting > to suggest that any 'component shortage' has got to > be a product of imagination rather than real. In 15 years using Altera devices I've never had any problems obtaining them. I've been kitting up for a prototype build and my FAE has had to pull a lot of strings to get me 4 Stratix's that were fairly freely available when the project started 6 months ago. It'll be October before I see any more. I also have an Analog Devices ADC designed in which was available from Digikey and a couple of other distributors four months ago but I've had to get Analog customer services to trawl their system to get me 4 for debug. Again it's November before these will be available. The Altera FAE said that 15 smaller fabs closed last year so all the big ones are working at more than capacity(?). Altera use TSMC which is fully booked. They announced the Cyclone IV family in October but so far only one device is out, the rest were due pretty quickly after that but are now scheduled for the Autumn (because they can't build them). Shortages are real IMHO. Nial |