Re: Help finding parts

jeff hendrix wrote:
>
> This is not a vector question, but this group knows where to find "hard to
> find" parts.
> I'm trying to repair a viewsonic monitor that has a bad drive transistor.
> The transistor has the number "C3956" on it and over the left leg it has the
> letter "E" and over the right leg it has "3E"
> (which means the middle leg is the 2nd emitter? ;-))
> There is no other marks on the entire device. I've searched several of the
> obsolete parts houses and none of them have anything that even comes close
> to matching that number.
> Any body have any suggestions where else I could look? or what other part
> might be able to replace it?
>
> thanks
> -jeff

It's probably a 2SC3956, it crosses to an ECG 2521 (T-NPN, Si, Hi Freq
Video Output). I don't have any catalogs handy, but MCM probably carries
them.

Dennis
Received on Mon Mar 29 11:41:31 1999