My articulating lamp died and I thought I might be able to fix it. I opened the controller and found a PCB with what looks like two output (FET?) transistors on the lamp end. I searched the numbers (AO9T) and found nothing. Is this a legitimate item number? Or, is it some kind of shorthand for a longer number? The 'brain' chip has no number at all that I can see.
It’s my understanding that the shorter number is used because it fits better and there is a database somewhere that knows how to cross reference. I’ve seen the cross reference detailed on some TI data sheets, for example,