C2240 vs 2SC2240

[steveyraff]

Hey all,

Just buying up some parts for a clone someone asked me to build for them. It has a heap of hard to find parts. The only C2240 transistors I can find are very expensive, but I can find cheaper 2SC2240's. I take it these are the same thing?

Also having serious problems finding NTE102's and NTE103's !

Cheers all!

[Mark Hammer]

Same thing.

[anotherjim]

Element14 have the NTE parts I think, but I can't get the Farnell site - is closed for mtce at the moment.

[smallbearelec]

NTE germanium devices are almost all very leaky, not very predictable in gain and usually unreasonably expensive for what they are. If you write to me at the smallbearelec address and provide a link to what you are building, I can suggest better alternates.

Regards
SD

[steveyraff]

NTE germanium devices are almost all very leaky, not very predictable in gain and usually unreasonably expensive for what they are. If you write to me at the smallbearelec address and provide a link to what you are building, I can suggest better alternates.

Regards
SD

Yes sure - I am building this: http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/human-gear-animato.html

I've carefully read over the comments under that build, and there are a few people there who attempted very similar alternatives but didn't find them to sound as good. Given this is a build someone has commissioned me with, I wanted to make it sound as close to the original as possible.

[smallbearelec]

Try these:

http://smallbear-electronics.mybigcommerce.com/new-category-2/

We wind up with a lot of this sort of stock as remainders from sorting for Fuzz Faces and such. It looks to be very close to what this pedal wants for the Sziklai pair at the input.

SD

[PRR]

The Japanese transistor standard numbering starts with "2SC".

On schematics, and increasingly on stock-lists, folks omit the "2S".