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From: wrb@ccsitn.cb.att.com (Wally Blackburn)
Subject: Re: Source for L293D or SN754410NE's ????
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In article <393qf5$g80@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Joshua C. Ruedin <jcr57394@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>
>	Does anybody know were to find L293D's or SN754410NE's ?
>	It's the motor H-bridge from the rugwarrior, and so far
>	the best I've found is a 10 week backorder wait from Arrow
>	Electronics..... grrrrrrr.....
>

Availability is a continual problem with these parts.  And these designs
(i.e. Miniboard) "take advantage of" the separate enables for each 
half-bridge, so substituting is next to impossible.

These motor drivers are rarely second-sourced.  Pain.....

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