[sdiy] Replacement for CA3160

[mark verbos]

CA3130

Don even used these in some of the 259s he built. I don't know if it was 
the earlier or the later ones, sadly.

Mark



Aaron Lanterman wrote:
> 
> If one wanted to build a clone of the waveshaper from the Buchla 259, 
> and one didn't want to pay $2 for the CA3160's on e-bay, what would be a 
> good replacement?
> 
> As far as how that circuit works, one of the key phrases from the 
> datasheet seems to be:
> 
> "A complementary symmetry MOS (CMOS) transistor-pair, capable of 
> swinging the output voltage to within 10mV of either supply voltage 
> terminal (at very high values of load impedance), is employed as the 
> output circuit."
> 
> - Aaron
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