Re: New small sized MOS8701 replacement

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 23:33:38 -0500
Message-ID: <b26c325c-90b7-50ea-3e9d-b26c89cdc70f_at_jbrain.com>
On 7/11/2020 9:31 PM, Jeffrey Birt wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> The cost difference between an inverter gate and a transistor + 
> another resistor is negligible when building a few of these. If you 
> wanted to build a million it would be a different story. I also did 
> not want to go smaller than 0603 chip parts so as to not make it 
> impossible for others to construct themselves at home.

Yeah, I'd suggest 2 pullups and 1 MOSFET so a limiting resistor was not 
needed, thought I was thinking the latter would be available in through 
hole if space permitted (since you were noting the 0603 size concerns).  
But, if the space is so tight, skipping the resistor is prudent.

Jim
Received on 2020-07-12 07:00:03

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