I have purchased from many many "chip" supply places, many not even on the internet. If there is a particular part number you want in qty's of 1000, pm me or post here and I will do some diligence
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Thankyou, I may need to talk about a fewIn-Tech wrote:Thanks for the reply Tazzi,
I have purchased from many many "chip" supply places, many not even on the internet. If there is a particular part number you want in qty's of 1000, pm me or post here and I will do some diligence
Exactly my fear, I know they work, and work damn well. So I don't want to change them but starting to feel I don't have much of a choice if I want to produce something in this life time.delcowizzid wrote:I would try keep the ftdi they just plain work. So many others just cause dramas plug a prolific and others into an msd programmable ignition box your engine stalls many ecu connection problems are sorted just by using an ftdi USB to serial cable in place of other inferior ones. Obviously the pandemic is bad in China and its effecting production of thousands of items
I doubt you will have any problems with the silicon labs stuff, we just get used to what we know and stick by it. Is there a particular package ftdi that you would like or is it just a "price is king" stuff and make the board accordingly? I've gotta get a few hundred coming for a project pretty soon. My little group does quite a bit of military stuff at times and therefore we get prioritized when purchasing is why I thought I might be able to help, also with pricing.Tazzi wrote:So.. I can get FTDIs in stock, but at a minimum order of 2500pcs, and at their current price, thats well over 10k in just FTDIs!!!
I have a small run of boards using the CP2102N silicon labs serial to usb's on the new prototype, fingers crossed they are all good.
Worst case scenario is I have two different drivers that need to be installed, which is not the end of the world I guess/
Interesting! I am looking at a couple different manufactures to see if they can source parts, since the couple Iv gone with say they have nothing at this time! I will check in if they are happy for stock to be shipped to them.In-Tech wrote: I doubt you will have any problems with the silicon labs stuff, we just get used to what we know and stick by it. Is there a particular package ftdi that you would like or is it just a "price is king" stuff and make the board accordingly? I've gotta get a few hundred coming for a project pretty soon. My little group does quite a bit of military stuff at times and therefore we get prioritized when purchasing is why I thought I might be able to help, also with pricing.
I'm not sure exactly what your new stuff will do but I am definitely wanting to move into dash and bcm stuffNo matter what, whatever I can do to help ya
I had an instance not too long ago, where PHP kept treating the value 1 as a string instead of an integer. So as soon as I would do "myvariable + 1", it quick literally crashed the php script.antus wrote:Im A bit late to this thread, but can probably also help with FTDI. Ive got some ECM NVRAMs and ALDLs being put together now, and my supplier has proven to have delivered 100% genuine hardware from the beginning. They also get better prices than online stores. They could source and add to the same upcoming order.
As for si-labs. Yes they are good, but some models need drivers and some dont. If your going that way you want a model that just works on win 10 and again you need genuine, like anything.
As for PHP, Im just gonna leave this here (truth is though, I think its a mature language these days.. but its had a rough history)