What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?
What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?
(OP)
Does anyone know what company made the potentiometer in the attached picture? The marking on it is "TC".
Here's the backstory: We have been buying an OEM circuit board from a Chinese company for nearly 10 years and have approved the "TC" potentiometer they originally put on it (before I got hired). I did try to call it out completely on the BOM, but the company would never tell me the actual manufacturer, so I've been calling it out over the years as "TC" potentiometer. The latest batch of circuit boards does not say "TC" on the part and the quality of the part is not as good, but they claim it is "TC". I'd like to get to the bottom of this and it would help if I called the potentiometer manufacturer.
Does anyone know who the original vendor might be? I've looked on Alibaba for potentiometer manufacturers with those initials, and ones that end in "Technology Co.," but nothing has panned out. Nothing good from google with search terms like TC potentiometer, either.
Here's the backstory: We have been buying an OEM circuit board from a Chinese company for nearly 10 years and have approved the "TC" potentiometer they originally put on it (before I got hired). I did try to call it out completely on the BOM, but the company would never tell me the actual manufacturer, so I've been calling it out over the years as "TC" potentiometer. The latest batch of circuit boards does not say "TC" on the part and the quality of the part is not as good, but they claim it is "TC". I'd like to get to the bottom of this and it would help if I called the potentiometer manufacturer.
Does anyone know who the original vendor might be? I've looked on Alibaba for potentiometer manufacturers with those initials, and ones that end in "Technology Co.," but nothing has panned out. Nothing good from google with search terms like TC potentiometer, either.





RE: What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?
I only mention this because a company called "Italohm" makes a toroidal rheostat that uses the model designation "TC".
http://www.italohm.com/lang_en/products/TC_OFEL.ph...
You were likely only using the term "potentiometer" in your Googling, I substituted "rheostat" for you and got it at the top of the hit parade.
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RE: What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?
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RE: What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?
I did use rheostat in addition to potentiometer, just didn't mention it. Sorry for the confusion.
I was going on the assumption that they make a lot more pots based on finding that a lot of Chinese companies making the identical looking rheostat make a lot more pots in the same style. Thought there might be a bigger chance of finding someone using a pot with this "TC" marking rather than a rheostat.
RE: What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?
As with one of the other threads, I think a lot of time is being spent on trying to track down one thing when the complete picture is being missed... forest for the trees issue.
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RE: What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?
RE: What company makes this potentiometer marked "TC"?