3080's

[Louis Otero]

Some wrote the list prior and told us about a program you can get for
www.partminer.com.  It is a cool search engine that looks at 10 or so
vendors to see if they have the part. It puts all in one list and in some
cases it tells you vendors stock availability.

Luis

Tim Curtis wrote:

> Hi Everyone -
>
> Pardon a Naive question, but is it still possible to find 3080's?  While
> calibrating my OB-8 I found some that were apparently too far out of
> tolerance, because when I replaced them with a few from an OB-X it tuned
> right up.
>
> Now, however, I need to find some for my OB-X.  Figure I may as well
> pick up some extras while I'm at it.  Anyone know of a good, inexpensive
> source?
>
> While I'm at it, I'm also looking for a decent source for 3046's and
> some common op-amps like TL081's, 4558's, TL072's...  There is a really
> large Electronic Supply place about 5 blocks from me (coincidentally
> enough called "Electronic Supply"), but for most everything I come in
> looking for they only have the NTE "equivalent," so a TL081 is a little
> over $4.00, 4558's are $3 and change...
>
> And I'm still not even really clear on whether or not these are actually
> the exact replacement parts, or just parts that are suitable to be used
> in place of the original.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim