Tayda potentiometers?

[jalmonsalmon]

Is it me or does anyone notice that the Tayda pots get scratchy fast? I have ordered pots from Tayda and am not really liking them as much as the ones I get from Sm Bear or Mouser...    Maybe I got a bad batch from Tayda

[selfdestroyer]

Is it me or does anyone notice that the Tayda pots get scratchy fast? I have ordered pots from Tayda and am not really liking them as much as the ones I get from Sm Bear or Mouser...    Maybe I got a bad batch from Tayda

I have not had problems with mine but then again I'm not a huge knob twizzler. Most things are set and messed with in small increments over time.

Cody

[culturejam]

I've had great luck with their 9mm board-mount pots. Those all seem pretty solid.

[rullywowr]

Never a problem except a couple of times the whole PCB portion broke when I was trying to bend leads.

[GermanCdn]

Yeah, I haven't had any issues with them either, although they have been switching them up lately so you might have got an inbetween batch.

[pickdropper]

My main beef with Tayda's pots is that the shafts have variable ODs.  Some of them have the standard .25" shaft and others have .235."  I ran into some 9mm pots the other day with the smaller shaft and the knobs don't install on them properly; they wobble when turned.

[GermanCdn]

My main beef with Tayda's pots is that the shafts have variable ODs.  Some of them have the standard .25" shaft and others have .235."  I ran into some 9mm pots the other day with the smaller shaft and the knobs don't install on them properly; they wobble when turned.

Yeah, this has been bugging me a lot lately, they've also got different diameters on the threads on the solid shaft 16mm.  Not a big deal, except when you don't put the nuts on when they arrive, but rather throw them into the generic nut bin, and then have to fish through them to find the right ones.

[peAk]

My main beef with Tayda's pots is that the shafts have variable ODs.  Some of them have the standard .25" shaft and others have .235."  I ran into some 9mm pots the other day with the smaller shaft and the knobs don't install on them properly; they wobble when turned.

I have had this issue, as well as having a couple pots already being scratchy like the OP mentioned. My other issue is I have had a few that didn't turn as smooth as they should and even a few with indents when I didn't order them that way.

That being said, it's hard to complain when they are a cheap as they are. For my builds, I don't care that much. If I was making pedals for others, it could be an issue.

[davent]

Great.... was pretty much the last thing i still ordered from them... and the led's?

[juansolo]

Out of 100's of Tayda pots we've maybe had two bad ones. Which isn't bad going considering that Alpha pots in general are cheap in comparison to Bournes and the like.

[Jopn]

Just a pet-peeve, we're talking about Alpha pots right?  Tayda sells us Alpha pots for a good price, just seems counter-intuitive to me to throw Tayda's name under the bus if Alpha has a QA issue.

[mattlee0037]

Idk I feel it's possible that they are so cheap because they are sold batches of pots not quite upto alphas quality control standards

[pickdropper]

Idk I feel it's possible that they are so cheap because they are sold batches of pots not quite upto alphas quality control standards

This.  I've received many out of spec parts from Tayda that are name brands.  I suspect that offer to buy the QC rejects at a highly discounted price.

For the smaller shaft pots, I'd have no problem with them selling them if they only identified them as such; then I'd know to avoid them.

Either way, many of the issues encountered with poor quality components don't exist when parts are purchased from places like Mouser, Digikey or even smaller distributors such as Small Bear.  Tayda's niche is parts at dirt cheap prices but not necessarily high quality or even in spec parts.

[Jopn]

If that's the case (which I'm pretty skeptical about), Alpha is shooting themselves in the foot by putting branded parts out into the market that don't meet their QA standards.

I just try to stay away from the stigma that buying an asian component from an asian company means that you get lower quality than buying that asian component from a north american company.

Idk I feel it's possible that they are so cheap because they are sold batches of pots not quite upto alphas quality control standards

This.  I've received many out of spec parts from Tayda that are name brands.  I suspect that offer to buy the QC rejects at a highly discounted price.

For the smaller shaft pots, I'd have no problem with them selling them if they only identified them as such; then I'd know to avoid them.

Either way, many of the issues encountered with poor quality components don't exist when parts are purchased from places like Mouser, Digikey or even smaller distributors such as Small Bear.  Tayda's niche is parts at dirt cheap prices but not necessarily high quality or even in spec parts.

[pickdropper]

If that's the case (which I'm pretty skeptical about), Alpha is shooting themselves in the foot by putting branded parts out into the market that don't meet their QA standards.

I just try to stay away from the stigma that buying an asian component from an asian company means that you get lower quality than buying that asian component from a north american company.

Idk I feel it's possible that they are so cheap because they are sold batches of pots not quite upto alphas quality control standards

This.  I've received many out of spec parts from Tayda that are name brands.  I suspect that offer to buy the QC rejects at a highly discounted price.

For the smaller shaft pots, I'd have no problem with them selling them if they only identified them as such; then I'd know to avoid them.

Either way, many of the issues encountered with poor quality components don't exist when parts are purchased from places like Mouser, Digikey or even smaller distributors such as Small Bear.  Tayda's niche is parts at dirt cheap prices but not necessarily high quality or even in spec parts.

There are plenty of high quality Asian vendors.  Tayda just isn't one of them.

Make no mistake, I still buy some things from them.  But I've run into many problems and there are some items I just won't buy from them again.  Every vendor has issues from time to time, but I've procured a lot of parts in my life (professionally and personally) and Tayda's rate of OOS parts (not just Alpha) is significantly higher than I've seen from anything outside of eBay.