Thursday, June 10, 2010

Plastic Transistor Body

Following yesterdays posting regarding the addition of the TO-63 transistor package I added yet another transistor package. This newest addition adds a Plastic TO-226 Transistor, very closely related to a Plastic TO-92.

The TO-226 is a common molded plastic case transistor; however because it's a plastic body it's not really used in any government specifications, so there are no BJT Dearting Curves provided as a link. In many cases I add these component bodies and indicate they are transistor devices, but any three terminal part could reside within these component shapes; including FETs and Transistors, or an SCR, Triac, or 3-terminal references or Temperature Sensors.... Of course some of these package will handle more power than others and may not accommodate higher current or voltage applications. Here is the top level page linking all Transistor Packages.

Both the new page on the TO-226 device and the TO-63 device added yesterday have been included in the Engineering SiteMap.

As normal with many new pages, this one is a copy of a preexisting page on the Engineering Site. However over time I'll add more data as I get back to that topic. The page on the TO-63 started out with a bit more data. I should be adding another related page on Friday.

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