Discrete PMOS???

Ah, you's chip guys. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Hint: Digikey let's you sort by voltage, current and now also (tada!) price :-)

The BSS84 would cost 1/3rd (or $0.06) but only 130mA.

From a price POV, yes, absolutamente. I only use FETs if I hafta, because of $$$.

Can you suggest a bipolar part number? Thanks! Sorry, I know nothing about discretes anymore... it's been 30 years since I designed around them. But I don't have software go *PHUT* ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Here ya go, assuming you want SMT:

Around $0.01 a pop in bulk. Make sure to get the A-version so it can withstand 50V. The non-A is only 40V.

Not sure what you want to do but if it's some digital control there's also pre-biased trainsistahs to save pick&place costs. Got to run. Wife made Labskaus which I love. No, you don't want to know what that is, let alone see it. Haggis looks pretty in comparison.

How about 10,000,000 quantity... no kidding ;-)

Naaaah! That's tame. You didn't forget that I'm only half Scot... the other "half" is German, Pole and even a little French (Lambert) thrown in for fun. And my wife is Dutch and French... and cooks! ...Jim Thompson

MMBTA56

Couldn't be any cheaper then this.

:-)

Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant

Mountain Oysters ? :)

If 20V/700mA is enough, you should use an S8550 TO92 for lowest part cost.

No, some people seeing it for the first time call it a diaper blowout on a dinner plate :-)

Over 2c/piece? You are wasting money, man, you are wasting money :-)

At that qty you should negotiate some Asian parts, gets you under 1/2c, no kidding :-)

Cripes, Jörg. I picked up 60V process OnSemi PN2222A (TO-92, though) at 4 to a penny with a much smaller purchase -- about

Jon

Non-SMT is often overstock, that you can get cheap. But to buy regular stock SOT-23 under 1c in the US would make you a darn good broker :-)

Cures hangovers too ;) I guess if your hung-over, looks aren't all that important.

Cheers

We buy MMBT3906s (PNP) in a SOT-23 for $.01. The 3904 (NPN) is $.013. Those are pretty much single-reel prices.

Sometimes when I see Chinese pricing I wonder when the point comes where the oil price begins to matter, because TO92 needs more plastic.

This is the typical appearance of Labskaus, for those who aren't too sqeamish about "different" looking food:

What does it look like _before_ you eat it?

That's just the trick: The same :-)

We don't buy Chinese[*] or stuff from other than major disties, for reasons mentioned here.