[TCML] 555 timer

[bunnykiller]

3055 transistors??   I have about 150 of them ...  :)  yes I have them ALL
and my wife thinks Im a packrat... 

Scot D


McCauley, Daniel H wrote:

>Don't worry.  You can't get a 3055 anywhere.
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>Thats real old timing there.
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>Thanks guys, I guess I'll order another or first try the radio shack
>down the road (the local one stopped selling most components, and only
>sells devices now, you cannot even get a 3055 transistor, or a rectifier
>diode!  It is sickening.)
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>Scott Bogard.
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>McCauley, Daniel H wrote:
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>>555 timers come in a variety of different packages.
>>You are thinking of the DIP-8 through hole package.
>>What they sent you was a surface mount version.
>>Radio Shack still carries 555 timers.
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>>Dan
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>>Hey Guys,
>>     This is off topic I know, so please respond off list.  I ordered 
>>a
>>555 timer for a small electronics project, and when it came it is 
>>extremely tiny.  Less than a half a centimeter at it's widest point.  
>>I seem to remember seeing these in Radio Shack (back when they still 
>>sold
>>components) and they were bigger, about a centimeter long, is there 
>>some reason mine is tiny.  I only care because it is going to be very 
>>difficult to solder and mount to anything.  Thanks guys.
>>
>>Scott Bogard.
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