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From: zahid@neptune.AMD.COM (Zahid Ahsanullah)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Trying (again!) to identify a component!!!(help!!)
Keywords: Fisher amp is burning
Message-ID: <1021@neptune.AMD.COM>
Date: 30 Jun 89 20:01:42 GMT
References: <320@albanycs.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: zahid@neptune.AMD.COM (Zahid Ahsanullah)
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In article <320@albanycs.Albany.Edu> vijay@albanycs.Albany.Edu (Vijay Vaidyanathan) writes:
>My Fisher amp began smokin a while back and the only component 
>that looks "smoky" is a thingy that looks like a Transistor, and
>is bound to a Heat Sink. The number on it is D 612 K and has the
>letters EL printed near one leg and "2" near another. Nothing near
>middle leg. The IC Master that I had access to came up with nothing.
>
>Thanks.
>
>- Vijay

Try locating a japanese 2SD612. Its possible that this is a power
transister. Usually the japanese configuration are 2sa,2sb,2sc,2sd
with two or more number attached to the end of this prefix. The
short form for 2sd218 would be d218.

				regards
				Zahid