[sdiy] "obsolete" 2N3906

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Mouser shows "stock available" for several variants in TO-92.  Does anyone here
have any (general) info on what the difference between one variant and another
is given that they are all TO-92?  Ie, will one work as well as another in most
analogue synth circuits?  (after all, we don't use them to pilot a space ship to
 Jupiter)  Being a linear guy, for the most part, I use 2N3906 (in darlington
config) in linear V-I converters.  I have never had to choose particular 2N3906
parts for this purpose.  Whatever I have in the box has always worked for me.

But it does look like I ought to go get at least 100 of these now, while I still
can.  (and the 2N3904)...

I really do hate this.

Ian Fritz <ijfritz at earthlink.net> wrote:
>Ah, but the other Fairchild varieties that are not discontinued are also TO-92.
>
>At 10:40 AM 6/5/2003, Grant Richter wrote:
>>You will notice those are both TO-92 packages. This is just a continuation
>>of the process of eliminating through hole parts and forcing everyone to
>>switch to surface mount. This was to be expected the day surface mount was
>>announced.
>

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