Cross referencing NTE part number to industry parts?

I worked at a store that sold NTE, we had a reverse sheet. ask your local dealer.

Steve Roberts

With that number try HA LA or LM series ICs. ECG used to tell me what part they actually used. NTE might tell you what parts that will replace one of which will be the one they buy. Jeff

That can't be done. If the NTE part has higher rated voltages than the replacement, then there is no direct replacement. Perhaps some can enlighten on some of the mysteries of NTE part. I'm sure there are stories to be told.

greg

NTE does everything in their power to prevent you from doing just this. Your best bet for finding the replacement may be to feed phrases from the datasheet into google and see if it finds anything.

Years ago there were a few web sites that listed the crosses but they didn't show up in a google search.

Try looking up the National and Motorola chip with the same function. You may get lucky.

You are best off to never design a NTE part in. Even though their parts are copies of other makers parts you end up single sourced as you have discovered. Also, I have found that their parts (RF transistors) are not all that good of copies and tend to have a higher failure rate than the part they copied.

You get out your 25 year old EGC databook, which are just reprints of the manufacturer's datasheets with the manufacturer's logos removed and see if you can recognize the style of the schematics, and then you take your ECG or NTE cross reference book and look under the part numbers for that manufacturer.

RCA CA3075 FM IF amplifier/detector

Next time, ask in sci.electronics.components

Mark Zenier snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

An Industry part that is the saem as the NTE723 is MC1375P so you can dig up the data sheet for this part to find details.

No, I did not find a cross reference list, I just got lucky on a google search......

Jim Pennell

Thanks, ya'll! I found out that there is a local NTE distributor here, so next time I'm stuck with an NTE part, I"ll just give them a call. However, I might stay away from NTE parts in future projects after hearing a few comments about their reliability.