MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MR> "Roy J. Tellason" bravely wrote to "MIKE ROSS"
(13 Dec 03 
 MR> 12:08:37)  --- on the heady topic of "*big* transistors"

 RJT> MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MR> I can't find the ECG73 either. Perhaps it is a misprint?

 RJT> Possibly,  but on the page where they show that sort of package it's
 RJT> the only one with a 1/4"-28 stud except for one other that mentioned
 RJT> "isolated stud" and which has slightly different terminals on it.
 RJT> This has two solder-eye terminals and one "hook" for the
collector,
 RJT> so it's not isolated from the case.

 MR> Hmmm, a thought just came to me. We have looked in the "consumer"
 MR> stuff. Try looking it up in "Industrial" grade intead.

Eh?

What databooks I have on hand besides this seem to concentrate on chips
rather than discrete stuff for the most part...

And this is a perfect example of why it's still nice to have all those
paper databooks on hand when you can get all those .pdf datasheets on the
'net...

 MR> BTW other numbers are similar to ECG for example NTE and VIS 
 MR> apparently, if that helps. 

I know of NTE,  and when they first came out they didn't seem to work as
well as ECG did for the same numbers.  Nowadays it seems like they've
pretty much taken over.  And I have an SK book around also,  somewhere, 
though it's probably not all that current either (neither are most of the
parts I'm looking up...   :-).  Never heard of VIS.

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