With my industrial engineering background, I have a different perspective. I provide support for a small electronics manufacture. I had advised against relying on Chinese suppliers for anything due to the trade wars / tariffs. And I always recommended stocking up on major sellers to handle spikes in demand.
With the Wuhan virus, I’ve never been more right. We have a 2 month supply of popular products and probably longer of the slower sellers. I’d already identified alternate, American suppliers for a variety of components. We’ll still get connectors and cable in time, regardless of China’s capacity.
People who relied on just-in-time delivery from overseas are screwed.
Interesting. Dependency is dangerous for a lot of things.
Along those lines, do you know of a source for foam core twin lead cable? I used it for a lot of RF projects and now it looks like everything went to low loss coax cable. (low loss for coax does not come close to low loss for twin lead.)
Belden was once “the source” for that, but I have not been able to find a replacement.