From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Brenton wrote:
>>Farnell's prices are quite rude, about double of Jaycar

> True, but do you know anyone else that will supply 1 x LM2595 ?
> Fuck, I couldn't even buy 1,000 of them locally through Avnet or any other
> NatSemi distributor and ended up having to source them direct from teh states
> myself.  So, what other options would you realistically suggest for 1 off ?

  The lower end LM2576 is available through jaycar, owing to the availability 
difficulties, it probably ends up the easier option, if not the lower 
performance option.

>> David, if you're going to go to that trouble, you may as well go for
>>their ready-made DC/DC converters ..[]..

> Except that you won't find one which can pull 3 amps !!!   Jaycar have one which
> is 1.5 amps, but I don't think that would work for very long...  Mind you, I'd
> like to be corrected on that, coz it would save me 15 minutes of math and 2
> hours finding the bits in catalouges.

  Yeah, you're right.  I was thinking of their laptop supplies, but they don't 
go below 13v or so.


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