At 06:03 AM 1/22/2003, Frank Condelli wrote: >from the top and pins facing forward, fourth component down the row. It >should have a hole in the center and have BD 438 printed on it. I have tried >to replace that transistor but it did not work. I'm not sure what the >problem was. The transistor the electronics store gave me as a cross >referenced replacement was a NTE 332. All I know the motor ran with the >burned transistor but had idle stabilisation problems and the motor would not Frank, very likely the pinout is different. The cross-referenced parts aren't always as good as the original in a particular application, but normally should work at least somewhat -- but the pins may very well be located differently (if it's a regular transistor they'd be Emitter, Collector, Base) -- Could be ECB, BCE, EBC etc. If so you have to do some careful and fancy work with pliers to cross the new ones over so they match the old, or to get two of them right and run a short wire for the third... david
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