[sdiy] searching for some gems

[Ray Wilson]

The LM13600 and LM394s go great in these VCOs.

http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/VCO200503REV01/VCO200503REV01.html

Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Riggs" <Ben.r at iinet.net.au>
To: "'synth-diy'" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:21 AM
Subject: [sdiy] searching for some gems


> Hi all,
>
> I been working in the engineering department at one of the local
> universities for the past 6 months or so, and there are these two tubs of
> 1000s of different semiconductors kinda sorted in bags that were donated 
> by
> some guy who closed up his dick smith store bout ten years ago. Most of 
> the
> stuff is useless for what we do at the uni, all I've fished out and used 
> in
> the job is voltage regulators, 741s and bc548 transistors. I been told by 
> my
> superiors "if there is anything you may find useful in there, feel free to
> take it."
>
> So far I found:
> 5 or so LM394CH (NPN pair in CAN pkg)
> 9 2N2642 (NPN pair in CAN pkg)
> 4 2N5546 (FET pair in CAN pkg)
> 2 2N3955 (FET pair in CAN pkg)
> the above were easy to spot cause of there 6 leg pkg.
> 5 LM394CN (NPN pair in DIP pkg)
> 6 LM13600AN (whats the difference between the N and the AN suffix?)
> 9 LM3080N
>
> Anyways, what I would like to ask the list, are there any specific parts I
> should keep my eyes out for when going through it all? I know there is a 
> lot
> of worthless stuff in there, but I also know there is some gems in there
> with it, unfortunately I'm not really too sure what else to look for. A 
> lot
> of it looks like radio, tv and vcr repair type stuff. There is linear 
> (small
> signal and power), discrete and digital stuff all mixed in together.
>
> cheers.
> ben
>
> p.s. there are no SSM or CEM types in there.
>
>
>