[sdiy] Best place to get 3080s?

[Tom Arnold]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 02:40:13AM -0500, Aaron Lanterman wrote:
> 
> As sort of the reverse corallary to my last question...
> 
> Jameco has them for $2.95 each, $2.65 for 10+, which is a bit pricey...
> 
> ...or is that as cheap as they come nowadays?

JDR has 50 or so in stock at $1.50.

You can buy tubes of them off ebay if you watch, usually these days at about
$1 each.

If someone has a lot of money they can throw around, quantities in excess of
100k are readily available for cheap, but you'd need $25k to do the order.
I dont think 3080's are going anywhere for a while and I also dont expect
anyone to make them until there are fewer left in stock. 

In other interesting news, New Japan Radio still supports the process under
which LM3080's were last made by National, so once there is a real market
for 3080's ( after existing stocks are depleted a bit more ) I rather expect
we'll see an NJR3080.  On the other hand, I'm only using 3080's now when I'm
building a board that requires one.  For new stuff I am laying out I'm
actually trying to go all discreet where possible.  4 transistors = 1 3080
in some cases :-)  I think there was a thread a while back about building a
discrete OTA, if not then I saw it in one of the many books I've gotten
recently ( I thought it was Walt Jungs latest, but its not ).

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