hm that's kinda weird. The seller advertises his P416As as being in the Hfe-Range of 60-125 which would be pretty much perfect. Maybe a mistake? Or he measures them differently? And they don't seem to be painted grey, but bare metal instead. Same with the GT108B (60-130). Weird. Have you bought something from him IvIark?IvIark wrote:I've got some P416A and GT108G as well. The P416As sound great in a Fuzz Face circuit but they're relatively low gain, they ranged from 40 to 70hFE and have zero leakage. They look very similar to the GT308B, same case design but painted grey instead of bare metal, but the GT308B's are probably a better choice because they seem to be slightly higher gain, going from 56 to 90 and again with zero leakage.
The GT108G's are cool. They're really small (smaller than a metal can silicon transistor) and were mostly in the higher Fuzz Face gain range, from 100 to 160hFE although a few measured much higher and were probably out of the useful range for us.
I've bought quite a few Russian transistors over the last few years and the only ones I've really been disappointed with are the NPN GT404B's. All the PNP ones have been good purchases.
It would be perfect if he had a higher gain version of the MP38A since I'm looking for NPN and I don't want to buy a 50-pack if the gain range is really that low and I can only use less than half of them. Is there something like a MP38B or MP38E?