Oh My God ! or "Where are the standards now ?"

Other Hardware General Electronics
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Had a box of 2N5583 no longer used at work. So googled it for parameters.

Take a look and spot the odd one out.

2

I don't see the sailboat.

3

Depending on the spec sheet, it can be an NPN or a PNP.

This is one heck of a versatile transistor.

4

To paraphrase Mr Mom,
" yeah, NPN, PNP, whatever it takes"

5

Wow... I'm so relieved that Great American Electronics finally got it right. Motorola has been making these devices wrong since the 1970's!

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CrossRoads:
To paraphrase Mr Mom,
" yeah, NPN, PNP, whatever it takes"

The guys in the marketing dept. figured out that they were "needlessly" eliminating half of their potential customer base. :wink:

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afremont:
The guys in the marketing dept. figured out that they were "needlessly" eliminating half of their potential customer base. :wink:

We usually check with engineering when doing something like this. The response always comes back as "if our customers are dumb enough to believe that, they shouldn't be our customers."

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pwillard:
Wow... I'm so relieved that Great American Electronics finally got it right. Motorola has been making these devices wrong since the 1970's!

When I first came across this "feature" I wondered if GAE is another Great Wall Motors of Electronics manufacturing masquarading as an American manufacturer.