Digikey are selling parts in the “Market Place”
“Online Only: Marketplace Products are currently only available to purchase on our website. The Digi-Key Marketplace provides access to a broader range of suppliers and products that are reviewed and vetted by Digi-Key. They are an extension of our line card that meet our quality standards. Marketplace products ship directly from their supplier and may incur a separate shipping fee. Services typically available from Digi-Key may not be available for these products.”
Among others they are selling parts from Rochester, they have plenty of 2SC3503E and 2SA1381E in stock, at the moment a lot of them.
Stock:
2SC3503E
2SA1381E
According to the datasheet these are genuine Sanyo parts, grade “E”
Minimum quantity is 925 each part at a very good price.
Maybe some would like to start a group buy or sell some in the Swap thread?
Cheers
Stein
“Online Only: Marketplace Products are currently only available to purchase on our website. The Digi-Key Marketplace provides access to a broader range of suppliers and products that are reviewed and vetted by Digi-Key. They are an extension of our line card that meet our quality standards. Marketplace products ship directly from their supplier and may incur a separate shipping fee. Services typically available from Digi-Key may not be available for these products.”
Among others they are selling parts from Rochester, they have plenty of 2SC3503E and 2SA1381E in stock, at the moment a lot of them.
Stock:
2SC3503E
2SA1381E
According to the datasheet these are genuine Sanyo parts, grade “E”
Minimum quantity is 925 each part at a very good price.
Maybe some would like to start a group buy or sell some in the Swap thread?
Cheers
Stein
I find it quite misleading that the manufacturer is quoted as being "ON SEMI" in the product description, dunno if ON ever made these though...
And you want to save 1 ct /ea when buying directly from rochester:
Rochester Electronics (en-US)
: Part 2SC3503E
And you want to save 1 ct /ea when buying directly from rochester:
Rochester Electronics (en-US)
: Part 2SC3503E
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Have you bought directly from Rochester?
Are you an Authorized Distributor?
If not maybe Digikey deserves that 1 cent or what do you think?
Far from it. Rochester is VERY well known in military and industrial operations as the "after Last Buy" supplier. You got a paper mill, or a B72, or something worth a million bucks an hour, idle because a "$2 chip" or "$0.23 transistor" failed. And the original supplier quit making it. And sold the inventory. Usually ends up at Rochester. Rochester has been in the business of buying end-of-production stocks much of my life. The minimum order _is_ $250 to get Rochester interested. (Yup, someone rounded-down this time.) If you got a million dollar failure you can't complain a few hundred bucks minimum.
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Why don't you stick to poetry?
If we can't trust Rochester and Digikey, who can we trust?
BTW: I see that some have bought 925 pieces of each since my first post.
Stein
Mouser has the 'D' grade available in onesy-twosies: KSC3503DS: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetai...qs=K0aVCp/7QwZFJOGYBADtRQ==#.YG5XAPLMGrk.link