Greetings:

Hi and welcome to the December and "2009 Wrap Up" issue of 1st Alert.

As we come into the Holiday & Christmas season, it is a good time to reflect on the year and what we have all accomplished and will accomplish. Hopefully, you have acheived most, if not all, of your project endeavors and things are going well. This issue summarizes key 1st Alert news items as well as select new products, expansions and engineering documents released in 2009.

Wishing you and yours a great holiday season!

Thanks for reading...and remember, engineers make the world go 'round!

Sincerely,

Nathan Bailey
Director of Engineering
nathan_bailey@venkel.com

In this issue:

• Crossing Panasonic MLCCs to Venkel
• New Products
• Engineering Documents
• Obsolete/Discontinued Parts

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Crossing Panasonic MLCCs to Venkel

One of the big stories in the industry recently is the fact that Panasonic is exiting the MLCC business. In order to help customers affected by this, we offered some resources earlier this year in 1st Alert.

An informational sheet containing the following:
- Special offer for Panasonic ECJ series users
- Manufacturers that cross directly to Venkel MLCCs
- Hi-value MLCC information

View/download this now

Our standard Cross Reference Guide for MLCCs is also available:

Veiw/download our MLCC Cross Reference Guide

New Products

Here are a few key parts that we introduced in 2009, all ceramic chip capacitors.

• Multilayer Ceramic Chip Caps (C Series)
  • 0.01uF, 0603, NP0/C0G, 25V, 5%
    (P/N: C0603C0G250-103JNP)
  • 10uF, 0402, X5R, 4.0V, 20%
    (P/N: C0402X5R4R0-106MNP)
  • 4.7uF, 0402, X5R, 6.3V, 20%
    (P/N: C0402X5R6R3-475MNP)
  • 1uF, 0201, X5R, 6.3V, 20%
    (P/N: C0201X5R6R3-105MNP)
    
    Request samples
    
    View MLCC Datasheet

Engineering Documents

We rolled out a few important engineering documents this year:

• New RoHS Certificates
  • RoHS Certificate for Resistive Products
  • RoHS Certificates for Non-Resistive Products
• Electrical Characteristics Data (ECD)
  • Multilayer Ceramic Chip Caps (C Series)
    • 47uF, 1206, X5R, 6.3V, 20%
    • 22uF, 1210, X5R, 16V, 10%
• NP0/C0G vs. Film Capacitor Comparison Chart
  Outlines the major design and electrical characteristic differences between the two types of components.
  • View/download this chart

Obsolete/Discontinued Parts

• Product Change Notification (P.C.N.)
  Discontinuation of the TRN50 Melf Resistor series
• Product Change Notification (P.C.N.)
  Discontinuation of the LMCI 2012 Inductor series