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Announces Model 3296 Update

Riverside, California - August 13, 2007 - Bourns is pleased to announce a product update to Model 3296

manufactured in Taiwan. Model 3296 is manufactured in two Bourns facilities, Costa Rica and Taiwan.

Beginning January, 2007, our Taiwan facility began

shipping Model 3296 with a revised molded

housing. Refer to Figure 1 for more detail. The

new molded housing rectified the location of the

registered trademark. The registered trademark

must be located on “Bourns”, not on the model

number. Along with correcting the location of the

registered trademark, we also took the opportunity

to improve the Bourns logo, the circuit diagram

and the model number. The change in the molded

housing does not affect form, fit or function.

Model 3296 manufactured in Costa Rica will be

changed at a later date. Notification will be made

three months prior to the change.

The following pin styles have already incorporated the new molded housing: W/Y (Date Code 701T)

and X/Z (Date Code 703T). The P pin style, which is only manufactured in Costa Rica will retain the

old molded housing.

Please feel free to contact Bourns if you have any questions or comments.

TRIMPOT® PRODUCTS

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Figure 1:

Old Molded Housing versus New Molded Housing

Old Housing New Housing

Features

• Multiturn/Cermet/Industrial/Sealed

• 5 terminal styles

• Tape and reel packaging available

• Chevron seal design

• Listed on the QPL for style RJ24 per

MIL-R-22097 and RJR24 per High-Rel

MIL-R-39035

• Mounting hardware available (H-117P)

• RoHS compliant* version available

*RoHS Directive 2002/95 EC Jan 27 2003 including Annex