In article , Eeyore wrote:


GregS wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Chronic Philharmonic wrote:
"Arny Krueger" wrote
"Marky P" wrote

LM741 (pretty sure this is an op amp)

Yup and a real oldie. Slow and noisy, not to mention power hungry and a
weak output for what it does.

This was arguably the "breakthrough" IC op-amp. It was one of the first
popular devices that was actually a monolithic design, and not a hybrid
like
some of the original Burr Brown modules. It was compensated for unity
gain,
which made it much too slow for anything but a buffer for audio work. It
had
a slew rate of 0.5 volts/microsecond. With a +/- 12 volt power supply, 6
kHz
rail-to-rail was about it for non-slew rate limited signals. You could get
20KHz through it if you were content with about 4 volts peak.

I think it had more applications in analog computing, integrators, low
frequency function generators, servo controls, etc.

True but it DID get used in audio. Its companion, the 748 was uncompensated
internally (like the 5534 vs the 5532) and always seemed less noisy to me,
so I
used quite a few of those.

The RC4136 was used in a lot of stuff. It had a faster slew rate, and I
measured
up to 1.8 v/us, and was called a quad 741. Weird pins too.

I know the one. Avoided it like the plague if only for the pinout !

Didn't TI make a TL075 with the same pinout ?

Graham


Right, and I always wanted to use them in my old Soundcraftmen equalizer, then I could not get them.
I was set up to make conversion boards but never finished. I still have that equalizer but I don't use it.

greg