O.K. Steve, I hereby claim my 'Albert-of-the-Year' award for services to retrieval of useless information. I believe D-PAK stands for Deca-Watt Package - unless anyone suggests better. Here's a website that seems so decribe every packaging acronym under the Sun. http://www.ba-karlsruhe.de/chipdir/package.htm Happy huntin' -- Thx & best regards . . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norman S. Robinson Tel. No.: (44) 1355 355349 Snr. Assy. Engr. Fax. No.: (44) 13552 65201 TSG BE/OS PE Email: [log in to unmask] MOTOROLA EKB, SCOTLAND, U.K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen R. Gregory wrote: [log in to unmask]: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] writes: << Could it be Dense-Pac? Try this web page Below. http://www.dense-pac.com/ Hector Valladares Honeywell -SASSO Production Staff Engineer 727.539.3683 voice 727.539.4469 Fax [log in to unmask] >> Nah...it ain't that. D-Pak packaging is usually used in power transistors that looks like a TO-220 that's had it's legs chopped-off and formed into a gull-wing shape: ____________ _______| |\ |_______| | | _| | | |_| | | TOP VIEW _______| | | |_______| | | | ___________|/ ____________ ______| | | ____| | SIDE VIEW ___| | |___________|__ |_____| |_____________| Kinda' crude I know, but what can expect from ASCII Cad? hehehe... So all you Einstein's out there, what duz "D-Pak" stand for? -Steve Gregory- ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################