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Left one is bought from Mouser for about 6$ each and the right one was less than 1$ from Alibaba. Right one couldnt handle 200V drain to source. While its rated for 600V.

I know they are not the same part but watch out for culprits when buying mosfets. I read some legit suppliers got fake ICs back when there was silicon shortage.

Made by kingbright

Finally took the plunge and started to solder NOT, AND, and OR gates onto perfboard. Breadboarded an XOR this evening which I got working without frying anything too! Used 2N7000s for all of these (please don’t attack me for forgetting gate resistors). I’m super excited to start expanding into more complex projects soon!..

I’m pretty sure it’s just incandescence, but the behavior of it feels odd— it only glows above 9 volts at which point current will pass and it immediately reaches full brightness— no fade-in. If I didn’t know better I’d say it acts like an LED. My guess is that it’s just reaching some breakdown voltage and after which it passes current and glows.

Current passed from base-collector. Draws about 300mA at 20 volts.

And yes it was already blown— no live transistors were harmed lmao