I dont understand why I cant find this type of component, surely I am not the only person in the world with a requirement for one.
I need it to drive a bunch of low power lamps, and having the transistors in an array reduces component count, thus reduces overal cost of my project as the manufacturer I was thinking of using charges per component soldered.
Reducing the component count is surely a common thing to be doing when designing a PCB for manufacture is it not? And PNP transistors are reasonably common components... so why is there no PNP Transistor Array to be found???????
Am I getting it all wrong? Is there some other method people use to reduce the count/total cost of project???
This company ... http://www.pcbtrain.com/assembly.htm
...charges practicaly £1 per component, this just seems unjustifiable I am to atempt to make a profit on my device.
I am using through hole technology with my components, would using SMD reduce the overal cost of production, and could this be the reason PNP Transistor arrays are non existent (as the cost of soldering multiple SMD's becomes so low that arrays of components become pointless).
Thanks for any help.
I need it to drive a bunch of low power lamps, and having the transistors in an array reduces component count, thus reduces overal cost of my project as the manufacturer I was thinking of using charges per component soldered.
Reducing the component count is surely a common thing to be doing when designing a PCB for manufacture is it not? And PNP transistors are reasonably common components... so why is there no PNP Transistor Array to be found???????
Am I getting it all wrong? Is there some other method people use to reduce the count/total cost of project???
This company ... http://www.pcbtrain.com/assembly.htm
...charges practicaly £1 per component, this just seems unjustifiable I am to atempt to make a profit on my device.
I am using through hole technology with my components, would using SMD reduce the overal cost of production, and could this be the reason PNP Transistor arrays are non existent (as the cost of soldering multiple SMD's becomes so low that arrays of components become pointless).
Thanks for any help.