Favorite precision rectifier

Yeah. However, I tried an order of 2500 just on a lark. (I am willing to spent $70.) I got this confirmation:

Subject: Order Request Accepted From: "Arrow Electronics Inc."

Thank you for placing an online order with Arrow Electronics, Inc. Your Order #: xxxxxx

Your order request, placed on xxxxxxxx, has been received.

Please save this email or print it out; it will serve as the detailed STATEMENT of charges posted to your credit card. An invoice will not be mailed with your order so please retain a copy of this email for your records. Item Qty Part/Description/Supplier Price 1 2500 MC1496DR2/ON Semiconductor $0.03

Subtotal: $70.50 Applicable Sales Tax: $0.00 Shipping/Energy Surcharge: $8.99

Total: US$79.49

We shall see if the reel arrives.

Jon

It depends a lot on how you define "precision". It does better than a simple diode.

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I've used the MC1496 in TO-5, Dip and SOIC over the years. I preferred the MC1596 but it was discontinued over ten years ago.

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I recently used something like that for a low-noise sensor simulator which had to square the high frequency modulation signal. Worked fine.

Yup. 2500 of the beasties _DID_ arrive. All nicely done up in a full reel. Cost me 3.1796 cents each after shipping costs are included.

So, anyone looking for a supplier of cheap 14-pin SOIC MC1496's? ;)

Jon

So how to handle a us$5 transaction and how much of that gets eaten up in postage?

I've no idea. I've never really been in the business of selling parts and am not really interested in starting, this late in life. ;) I give them away, as a rule. But locally, to students and schools. (I still have almost 26000 TO-92 PN3904's, for example, bought at _well_ less than a penny each. I stock up on common parts when I can find a good deal on them and give to schools that seem willing to take a shot at using them.)

I gambled on these because they seemed so cheap, I was curious because Spehro wondered if it may be a mistake, I don't fret a few ten spots here and there just on a lark like this, and because the part schematic seems more broadly useful for stuff I play with than I'd first imagined. I actually may use some. By the way, this now puts me in the market for a book called "2501 wild and crazy uses for the MC1496!"

If you are serious, I'll ask the post office about "issues." But I suspect that since these are in easily cut strips and don't weigh that much, I might be able to send them pretty cheaply. An envelope might work. Just today, I watched as a postal worker used a 3x5 card to "wrap up" a stamp I was sending to someone, folding over edges in ways that would make you cringe and then just stuffing it into the standard stamped envelope I had handy. If that works through their ZMT machines, I have to guess something simple like strips of tiny parts stuck between two 3x5 cards in an envelop should work at 44 cents. Worst that can happen is the postman stomps on them, I suppose. It'd probably cost me more to worry about getting paid. So I'm open to suggestions. My email is open and works. Perhaps you have something interesting to offer in exchange? Spare resistors, even?

Jon