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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 08:16:42AM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote:
>  "I had decided to use Honeywell's"
> 
> I won't ever use any of there stuff again.  Designed in one of their
> manometers when I contacted them about software, examples, and
> filtering code that the data sheet said they would supply, the reply I
> got was along the lines of "You can't have it and don't bother us
> again".
> 
> Lesson I learned here is if they say that something is available I'll
> make sure I have it in hand before I design in the part.

But in this case I had a few of them in hand and they worked properly,
and it was selected because it was by far the easiest to use of all
the devices I had found. All the online distributors which I frequently 
place orders from had it (at different prices, but for a prototype 
I did not care): RS, Farnell, Mouser, and Digi-Key.

I can't remember anything approaching this level of customer contempt; 
I've seen specs changing sometimes over the lifetime of a product but 
not by such a wide amount, and often (always?) preceded by an ECN. Of 
course I've also seen parts being discontinued (among them very useful
ones) and very approximate replacement suggestions, but not such a
change while keeping the same part name (the other way around is however
quite frequent).

Basically they've walked out of the market of the medium temperature 
cryogenics (liquid nitrogen). I've not found any mechanically compatible
replacement, and the potential replacement are all significantly more
expensive.

    
    Gabriel

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