Bill,
My experience was with logic parts (74xx and CD4xxx series variants and the
follow-on families), not with discrete power devices and the characteristics
may be different. However for the logic stuff, the failure rates are high
in the first few hours of operation, then drop to some pretty amazingly low
value for a very long time (equal to tens of years) and then final death.
The problem is that the "wear out" if you want to call it that is so far out
that it's generally considered a given that the gear will be obsolete or
some quality defect (eventual corrosion ingress to the package) or external
event (voltage spike,etc) will before any wear mechanism kills the part.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Turner
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2015 11:52 PM
To: Amps group
Subject: Re: [Amps] More on "baby ur radio"
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:40:28 -0600, you wrote:
Migration is a real phenomenon but it's a quality defect, and not part of
the normal operation. Google "purple plague."
REPLY:
So, absent migration, do transistors "wear out"?
73, Bill W6WRT
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