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Title: Identifying a transistor
Post by: MordechaiBenZev on January 22, 2022, 09:35:17 AM
There are some transistors up for sale right now on Ebay that have a package I haven't seen before. A cross between a TO-1 and TO-5.  This one is billed as an OC71N...but I can't tell the manufacturer.  Is anybody familiar with this? 
(https://i.postimg.cc/S20VcBcB/Screenshot-2022-01-22-at-09-32-16-OC71-N-PNP-Germanium-Transistor-N-O-S-Tested-e-Bay.png) (https://postimg.cc/S20VcBcB)
Title: Re: Identifying a transistor
Post by: mozz on January 22, 2022, 11:19:51 AM
SFT?
Title: Re: Identifying a transistor
Post by: MordechaiBenZev on January 22, 2022, 11:41:59 AM
I always thought the SFT packages were a bit more elongated.  This looks a touch more like a TI 2G3xx series.  In any case it looks like the "OC71N" is a post-production restamp, but I may well be wrong about that.
Title: Re: Identifying a transistor
Post by: tonyharker on January 22, 2022, 02:39:39 PM
Genuine OC71s (Mullard/Philips) were always in a black glass package. This one appears to be a remarked something.  Looks like an AC128 package. Telefunken?
Title: Re: Identifying a transistor
Post by: Rob Strand on January 22, 2022, 05:22:05 PM
In the pic here you can see a large logo on one side.  I can't quite make it out.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_oc71.html


[Actually it says manufacturer SI under the pic]
Title: Re: Identifying a transistor
Post by: PRR on January 22, 2022, 05:26:10 PM
I don't think "TO1" was ever a formal standard. It was retro-fitted to several existing similar commercial packages after JEDEC got their transistor staff organized. "TO-1" may be flat or dome on top, straight or flanged on bottom. It is probably the product of a button-shank machine, adapted as each maker saw fit.
Title: Re: Identifying a transistor
Post by: duck_arse on January 23, 2022, 09:51:00 AM
it looks as tho the case has an emitter tag, in which case it would appears to be over the collector pin. I've only ever seen germs pin-marked on the collector, I think.