Re: C-Audio Power Amp Head ...


"Gareth Magennis" <gareth.magennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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IIRC, the C-Audio RA series commonly used BUZ Mosfets, both T03 and
T0247, which are still easily available.

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp;jsessionid=IO3Y2W2KBUIGECQLCIQJKBQ?N=0&Ntk=gensearch_001&Ntt=buz900&Ntx=&_requestid=486420



Gareth.



Yes, they are BUZ's and yes, they are in the Farnell book, allbeit with a
different suffix letter to what is actually fitted now, but with six N's
and six P's in the equation, at 8 quid + VAT a pop, that's 100+
quidsworth trade in devices for one channel, before we even start looking
at the other channel to see if any are open there as well.

Shop owner has deemed it uneconomic for the moment, so it will go back up
the corner to await its ultimate fate ... :-(

Talking of Farnell, do you order much from them ? Have you noticed how
much they seem now to be rationalising 'on the shelf' stock ? It used to
be *very* rare to ever catch them out of stock on any catalogue item.
Now, there seems to be something on every order. Also, have you noticed
how you get one order in two shipments ? One parcel comes from Leeds, and
the other, often something like a single transistor, comes in a box the
size of your head, by UPS, from Belgium. Surely, this can't make economic
sense, let alone (God forgive me for using the "e" word) ecological sense
?

Arfa



I order just about all my stuff from Farnell. They don't tend to have
much in the way of unusual or older transistors, these I can usually find
at Cricklewood Electronics.
http://www.cricklewoodelectronics.com/Cricklewood/home.php

I get my stuff next day without fail from both Farnell and Cricklewood,
nothing is usually out of stock or comes from Belgium.

I'm in Leeds, so is Farnell, so maybe that might have something to do with
it, but shouldn't really. What kind of stuff is coming from Belgium?
Chocolate screwdrivers? ;)



Cheers,



Gareth.


Seems like just about anything I order now can come from the Belgian
warehouse. To be fair, it usually comes the next day, as the stuff from
Leeds does, but how much must it be costing them to process, pack and ship
from Belgium, just one item out of an order of perhaps 10 items ? They also
seem to employ no rhyme or reason with determining how exactly the orders
are shipped by default. One day, they will deliver a transformer weighing a
couple of pounds, in a Jiffy bag, by regular post. The next day, a packet of
transistors will arrive in a box a foot square, conveyed by UPS, who don't
usually get to me until late afternoon. One thing about UPS *really*
irritates me (must be my age). After having got it to the right address, and
asked me to sign for it, and after the same bloke delivering the same sorts
of packets to me from the same company, for a long time, he still says every
time after I finish signing "What's the surname, please ?" Aaaaarrghhh !!!

I haven't used Cricklewood for a while. I also hadn't used Grandata for a
while until a few weeks ago. They have really gone down the toilet compared
to what they were. I needed an STK, and a couple of power transistors for an
amp, as well as a few other bits and pieces - fuses and so on. All items
showed as in stock on the website, so I went ahead and placed the order,
credit card payment and all that. The next day, I was extremely annoyed to
get an e-mail informing me that half the stuff was on 3 to 10 day back
order. It has actually taken a total of about 5 weeks to finally get
everything that was on the order, the last transistor arriving just
yesterday ...

Arfa


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