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Hey guys, I just found out(maybe you already know?) that Fairchild will sample up to five different products -per week- of a limited quantity. It's very nice: automatic, no questions asked, free two day shipping. I just got myself a few 60n60 igbts along with a few other products. Just thought I would let everyone know. All I ask is that people don't abuse this privilege so that it doesn't become harder to get. I will be looking around to see what other companies do this as well.
Actually I am about to get a few dozen wima snubbers for free, but it takes a lot of emailing with live salespeople, so I don't recommend it. Wima manufactured to order.
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Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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Well, what constitutes abuse? A billion-dollar corporation isn't really going to have its bottom line hurt by giving away $50 worth of parts. Just don't sample more than you need and don't resell them. I remember some guy used his defence industry contacts to get hundreds of IGBTs and then dumped them on EBay, which wasn't good.
Every company has a different sample policy. Some need you to have a business address. Some give the parts free but make you pay shipping. Some won't ship to certain countries. Some make you talk to a sales rep on the phone, and then call you back a month later to see if you actually used the samples.
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Joined: Wed Aug 31 2011, 06:40PM
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Vishay are also very good, they even have a sample request section next to each product. They won't sample IGBT's though, but I've got a few good 'FETs and HV resistors from them, with express shipping as well. I asked Littelfuse in the sample section for three different fuses, 3 each (9 total) but only got 1 fuse from them and I'm not sure which one it is that I got.
i got from fairchild 3 mosfets, 3 12V v-regs, 6 1kv 4007 diodes, and 4 555s for my flyback driver (extras because I tend to be a little careless) I was about to finish the project yesterday, when i realized my power supply (a 14V charger brick that is supposed to actually give 12V @ 1.5A) had a wire broken too close to the brick so i couldn't solder it back on.
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