Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #00614



To: beam@corp.sgi.com beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Richard James Zeigler rzeigle@tiger.lsuiss.ocs.lsu.edu
Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 3:00 AM
Subject: Transistor equivelant



>I popped on over to my local industrial electronics store (Ralph's) and
>asked for a couple of 2n3906 transistors.

I know the store. The Radio Shack of industrial electronics.
Expensive,Unhelpful and Treated you like an idiot, right?... I digress

>To make a long story short I accepted afew ECG289A transistors instead.
Well, >guess what!? They don't seem to be all that identical. Question
is...does anyone >know of a place where I can find some kind of chart or
table to double check these
>numbers. The ECG289a seems to act like a NPN instead of a PNP.

ECG parts are not that good. I've had to fix several things and have used
ECG parts and the general quality stinks. I think that their tolerances are
too large. I had an audio mixer that went out. replaced the parts With ECG
and it still gave me problems untill I replaced the parts with whatever else
(NTE sounds right...) Not a problem since.

-_-_-_-_-_
PC ZEN
Windows has crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.



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