------Question for ECW-U1152JX5 Please Put your question below------
Hello, this is the second film cap EOL notification we’ve gotten. The other was for part number ECP-U1C684MA5. What is going on here? Do you know if Panasonic is planning on releasing a new series? The only alternatives are 10 times more expensive… any recommendations for how we should re-design?
Joey
Greetings,
The PCNs seem to indicate material supply issues at both points mentioned, the ECW series seemingly coming from an outside vendor and ECP apparently from an in-house process that’s showing age coupled with limited demand.
Claiming no special knowledge on the point, one might imagine surface mount film caps becoming increasingly exotic. C0G ceramics may offer a similar high-stability alternative for low-C/high-V seletions (see these as possibilities for your ECW-part) though difficulties in how thin one can make a ceramic layer limit similar opportunities for high-C/low-V parts. 0.68u/16v in 1206 is certainly within reach for type II (X#_) ceramics, though stability with temperature, DC bias, aging etc. is much poorer. Even so, such a device operated sufficiently below spec might potentially be an option.
