| Texas Instruments 2N3045 Transistor Array | |
| Written by AnubisTTP on 2024-09-06 |
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The Texas Instruments 2N3045 is a dual transistor in a very unusual package; a 10 pin TO-89 gold flatpack IC carrier. Each side contains a 2N930 planar silicon transistor, the unorthodox TO-89 packaging was done to allow higher density PCB layouts than would be possible with discrete 2N930s. Since only six leads are needed for a transistor pair, the extra leads have been omitted during the manufacturing process. The 2N3045 example shown here was made in 1964.
Texas Instruments 2N3045 transistor array, at rest.
The 2N3045 is mounted in an unusual TO-89 gold flatpack package.
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