[sdiy] BC550C in place of BC548C in Rene's VCO3

René Schmitz uzs159 at uni-bonn.de
Tue Jun 15 17:44:49 CEST 2004


Hi Ryan,

allenre at umich.edu wrote:
> I have finally gotten MOST of the parts to build the VCO3.  The BC548C is on
> back order at Newark, however, and I don't want to wait a few more months for
> that one part, nor do I want to order one part and pay a $6 shipping bill.
> 
> My question is, can I simply substitute it with a BC550C?  I have a whole reel
> of these and it would be a very easy solution for me.

There is no problem interchanging them. Infact all other NPN general 
purpose small signal transistors should work.

Cheers,
  René

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