[sdiy] rare component sourcing: UTSource

[Electronic Battle]

That's interesting to note. My matched pairs all measured OK when I checked 
them for pinout and Hfe, so that gave me the confidence to purchase again. 
Perhaps they themselves have fallen victim to copies? I shall try them again 
for rare items though, and keep my fingers crossed!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Atkins" <gatkins at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Electronic Battle" <electronicbattle at googlemail.com>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] rare component sourcing: UTSource


This company came under scrutiny a while back. They claim to stock the
UA726, and they have a picture of the device with the date code 0214
suggesting it was made in 2002.
However evidence seems to show that manufacturing finished back in the
late 70's or early 80's.

Graham

On 16 Feb 2010, at 20:25, Electronic Battle wrote:

> Hello
>
> I was after some matched pairs - couldn't find them at sensible  prices so 
> I decided to chance my arm with www.utsource.net who are  based in China, 
> Singapore, HK and possibly USA too.
>
> I got a competitive quote which, with postage to the UK, came to  about 
> £20 for three components of MAT-02. I wasn't able to find them  cheaper 
> elsewhere.
>
> They got shipped for about £4 and they were sent on 2/2/10, turning  up 
> today 16/2/10.  I wasn't sure aboout them but now I am - I'd use  them 
> again so I thought my reassurance may help other people who  might be 
> after the odd semiconductor now and then.
>
> EB
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