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Ah ok also good to know! For some reason I was under the impression that the range of HFE for the simulcast / duocast was lower than that.

Whoa that is a high hfe - does it have a ton of gain or does it sound relatively normal (whatever that means)?

Ah good call, thanks for the heads up!

Awesome, thanks!

Ah OK makes sense. I guess I'll start by buying a few of the MP series and seeing what he I get out of them.

I'm thinking about building the Hudson Duocast (among others) which use germanium PNP transistors (specifically the OC71 for the Duocast). I've read elsewhere on this forum that the specific model of the transistor is less important than the specs, and that anything with an Hfe of 70-120 should...

Yea my last one came in an envelope, this time in an envelope, in a box. No problem with the extra padding (I ordered a drill template too, so could be that warranted the box), but the 70$ UPS brokerage fee was not fun. As Robert mentioned, only a small part of the whole cost was actually taxes...

Yes, testing it out again now I see now that you're correct. Adding a certain number of items (>4?) to the cart gets rid of the GlobalPost option, and sets the default to UPS, but the USPS option is still available below that. Being a Canadian who doesn't normally use either of those services...

Yea I recall learning this lesson from this and other forums last year, and making sure that my orders were split such that I could avoid UPS. This is a pretty hard self-own, since I was in a rush to order to take advantage of PedalPCB's 15% sale (lol). Lesson learned (again) I guess - I'm...

Partially reviving this thread to warn anyone ordering from Canada (I'm in Ottawa) in the year of our tariff 2026 - I just got hit with with ~100$ in import charges, which is about 50% the cost of the order. I think this may be because after a certain dollar / weight amount, PedalPCB forces you...