On May 18, 2008, at 11:26 PM, Jinx wrote:
> If it's any comfort, I might have put it in backwards too. All of
> the signal transistors I use (BCxxx) are ebc, rather than your cbe

Is there a standard for naming?  I would normally look at the  
transistor with the flat side facing me (so that I could read the  
type), and thus call the 3904 an "EBC" transistor (which is the most  
common in the US.)  And yet, the fairchild picture shows the  
transistor "upside down" (by my reckoning), and I've seen other data  
sheets that first NUMBER the leads (3,2,1 as I look at them) and make  
you got through another level of possible error inducing lookup as  
you find which number fits which function.

Sigh.
BillW

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