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A darlington such as the MPSA29 would strictly fit your stated requirements
but I don't know if you'd find the darlington gain to be way too high.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 5:23 PM Dwayne Reid <dwayner@planet.eon.net> wrote:

> Good day to all.
>
> I'm looking for an inexpensive jelly-bean transistor similar to
> 2n4401 but with minimum 60V rating.  Of particular importance is that
> the DC current gain exceed 200 with collector current of about 1 mA.
>
> I've been going through the many choices at Digikey but I'm finding
> that although many suitable transistors have decent gain at fairly
> high currents (100 mA and up), they have sucky gain at low currents
> (1mA or so).
>
> I'd prefer to stay with a North American part number (2Nxxxx) but
> would absolutely consider others.
>
> Prefer something fairly robust, similar to the 2N4401.  Decent
> current rating, in other words.
>
> Suggestions gratefully accepted!
>
> Many thanks!
>
> dwayne
>
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