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Is there a meaning to colors on a transitor?
« on: Yesterday at 12:06:47 pm »
I've got a whole collection of (unclassified) transistors.
I'll know that a dot on it can mean it is a matched pair.

But I also have transistors with several colours.
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Do these colours have a meaning?
 

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Re: Is there a meaning to colors on a transitor?
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 01:01:43 pm »
Yes, its just the part number without the prefix, like 2N etc..
Colors are the same numbering as resistor colors. So red red red red would be 2N2222 etc...


https://www.instructables.com/From-Resistors-to-ICs-Color-Codes/
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Re: Is there a meaning to colors on a transitor?
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 01:33:56 pm »
Ah, thanks. That makes the classification job easier. Topline color = first digit?
 

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Re: Is there a meaning to colors on a transitor?
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 08:54:49 pm »
Please show the other side of those transistors. The "colour-code" hypothesis is not really credible to me.
 
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Re: Is there a meaning to colors on a transitor?
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 08:58:42 pm »
I know those coloured stripes as ranking for hFE or IDSS, not the actual part number.
 
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Re: Is there a meaning to colors on a transitor?
« Reply #5 on: Today at 11:29:57 am »
I think you are right. There are several A06's but they have different colours
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Re: Is there a meaning to colors on a transitor?
« Reply #6 on: Today at 11:31:27 am »
Do you have more info on which colour is used for which property?
 


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