Some news:

We are carefully looking at the decisions being made by the European Union as to Cds optocouplers being what now appears as non exempt in draft paper July 2014. However as we observe if parts are available with stockists there appears sensible allowance for spares to be stocked. There is change being made from ROHS1 to ROHS2 and its hard for us to discern if audio optocouplers are or are not to be given new exemption with ROHS2. On one hand they are non exempt in ROHS1 , but ROHS2 may exempt them again, this should become clearer in August 2014.

In late June we made available our stand alone kit to suit this circumstance, so if you wanted to put one of our kits together you could still do so with lots of help with matching from us which we know is not too popular . We can still supply as distributors of these parts per the two letters we obtained, one from the National Measurements Office and the other from the EU, but we will abide by the ROHS 2 directive if it is worded as audio optocouplers as non exempt.

Alternative parts
We have put in order for 62 of the Fairchild H11F1M , which is a photo fet optocoupler, its a strange part as it needs lots of resistance prior to it, but it may suit our control board very well, so these will be in and being tested late next week. They will have to equal or exceed ( if thats possible ) audio performance we presently get from the NSL32SR2s

We would like forum members to start using our website http://www.stereocoffee.com that links through to Paypal via shoplocket, as maintaining store costs elsewhere has been very expensive for us.

Cheers / Chris