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> Sorry to burst your bubble but Philips do not make resistors and have not
> done so for some time.

No bubble.
As I said:
  > As long as it's branded "Philips" it's just a resistor. It doesn't
  > matter where they make them or even who they have make them for them,
  > as long as they maintain their quality control.
> The resistive products division of Philips (along with many other of their
> business units) were sold off to various parties (in many cases via
> managment buyouts) in recent years.
>
> The products continue to be made however (resistors by Phicomp  - A Yageo
> company), and have the same quality standards and even the same 12NC part
> numbers, and in many cases are available from the same distribution 
> channels
> as the original Philips components.

Meets my criteria :-)


> The Yageo website is here:
>
>  http://www.yageo.com/
>
>
> Apart from this technicality I agree wholeheartedly with what you say.
>
> I would add however that in our experience many more problems arise from
> shonky SMD ceramic capacitors than from resistors.  In particular, 100n
> capacitors used for decoupling purposes can fail such that they have
> resistances ranging from almost zero to a few tens of ohms.  The result is
> often an overheating regulator (or one which thermally cycles over 10's of
> seconds), or batteries which go flat many times faster than they should.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken Mardle
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