I have, apart from their website only working with IE (not Mozilla nor
Opera pretending to be IE) it was fine.  This was over a year ago.

As I recall they will give you samples, but you pay shipping.  Seems
like a good policy I hope nobody else ever follows.  (Free next-day UPS
for free parts makes me feel special!)

Very OT, but I had a thought once as I was getting free samples from 3
different places, how about a design competition for something that can
be built entirely from free samples?  Well maybe excluding resistors and
connectors; the rules could be: (1) must have a PIC; (2) no more than
$15 in qty 1 digikey prices for miscellany.  Prizes go to (a) coolest in
general and (b) highest BOM $ if it weren't all free stuff.  :)

J




Charles Craft wrote:
> $5.83 at Digikey vs. $3.24 (min qty 2) directly from Linear.
>
> Anyone ever order directly from Linear? Lead time? Issues?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Lackey <jesse@CELESTIALAUDIO.COM>
> Sent: Feb 15, 2004 10:58 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Boost & Buck regulator in one?
>
> I've done something very similar with good success.  Getting a clean
> 3.3V (actually, two clean 3.3V supplies, one digital and one analog)
> from a single li-ion cell, that ranges from ~4.05V to 3V.
>
> Linear's LTC3440 is designed to do exactly this.  I have it set via 1%
> resistor divider to produce around 3.8V to feed to the two 3.3V LDOs.
>
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