2SK208-Y through hole equivalents

jwyles90

jwyles90

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Hey all,

I've been sourcing parts for the Low Tide modulator and have everything I need at this point, however I'm curious about the 2SK208-Y part. I have the SMD chip but I'm wondering if anyone knows of any through-hole components that are the same? I've never done any SMD soldering before, so I'd rather not mess up that part of it on an already complicated build (if at all possible). Thanks!
 
generally whenever I run across something I don't feel like buying I search the part number on here to see what other people did. so just now I searched 2sk208 and saw multiple posts about subbing in j201 ... I did that for one of the oddball op amps as well in the low tide
 
jwyles90 said:
Hey all,

I've been sourcing parts for the Low Tide modulator and have everything I need at this point, however I'm curious about the 2SK208-Y part. I have the SMD chip but I'm wondering if anyone knows of any through-hole components that are the same? I've never done any SMD soldering before, so I'd rather not mess up that part of it on an already complicated build (if at all possible). Thanks!
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The 2SK30A is the through-hole equivalent of the 2SK208, but I believe the pinout on the Low Tide doesn't match so you'd need to bend the legs.

Pretty sure most of us subbed J201s or MMBFJ201s in our Low-Tide builds though.
 
manfesto said:
The 2SK30A is the through-hole equivalent of the 2SK208, but I believe the pinout on the Low Tide doesn't match so you'd need to bend the legs.

Pretty sure most of us subbed J201s or MMBFJ201s in our Low-Tide builds though.
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I just found these on Aion FX--https://aionfx.com/project/2sk208-gr-matched-set/

It seems like its the same thing as the SMD chip that I have but with them already soldered onto a board. Would those work too? Sorry if that's a no-brainer question, the fact that there's no "-Y" at the end of their title is throwing me off a bit.
 
Shoot Kevin at Aion and ask him, pretty sure those would work, but it seems a shame to break up a matched set when you've already got the transistors on hand — maybe just buy some break-out boards if you don't have any.

I broke my SMD cherry by soldering mine directly to the Low Tide board and wish I'd soldered them to break-out through-hole boards and then socketed them into my build (yeah, I like sockets, they work for me and I've never had a problem with socketing).

Soldering the SMD to break-out boards would allow you to practice SMD-soldering without risking wrecking the main PCB (I need more practice, apparently, though it seemed to work at the time). When I can find mine (lost in the trans-Pacific move), I've got some debugging to do, but not sure it's related to my first SMD-soldering attempt or not. More likely to do with a confabulated dual-gang pot, or power issue... or...



I just re-read what I wrote... in future I... must. have. coffee. before. posting.
 
manfesto said:
The 2SK30A is the through-hole equivalent of the 2SK208, but I believe the pinout on the Low Tide doesn't match so you'd need to bend the legs.

Pretty sure most of us subbed J201s or MMBFJ201s in our Low-Tide builds though.
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This pic has been posted, not by me, but I'm pretty sure this is correct. So yes, the 2SK30A needs leg bending.

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