Hi,

    Does anyone knows about any small signal germanium transistors that are
still in production ???!!

    I need slower vbe than silicon to use in a short circuit protection
system. The 0.6 volts of silicon transistor makes me use a large wire wound
resistor that could have it's value divided by 3 and would also get the
dissipation much lower. For this application the leakage problems should not
make any difference. It is either that or complex op-amps circuits and the
thing has high side drivers wich make it harder to measure current. The
project is very price sensitive so I am not able to use protected FET's.

Best regards,
Alexandre Guimaraes

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