Yeah, I know the feeling, but ... a story:

In the mid 1970s, many IC makers were pushing their new-fangled
microprocessors. Signetics had what I considered the best of the lot with
their 2650, but they would only make it available to worthy, users. Intel
let anyone and everyone get and play with their 8080. I'm not sure
Signetics is still in business. I wish I'd bought Intel stock.

Consider yourself one of the geeks, spreading the word about a worthy
product and inventing such things like spreadsheets.

Roger

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"OldNick" nsremovable.iinet.net.au@ wrote in message
news
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:02:47 GMT, "Roger Derby"
wrote:

Thanks for coming back

I was tempted to go for a kit, but feel a bit of a heel. I really am
experimenting I guess, but I am hardly going to generate great sales!

.....unless my electronics building skills are up to their usual level
of course !

G

From the "LEDS Magazine" web site:
Summary of Features: LTC3453
snip
Contact
Call toll-free 1-800-4-LINEAR (for literature only)
North America
John Hamburger
Tel: (408) 432-1900 ext. 2419
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.linear.com

I'd suggest you e-mail John Hamburger asking where you can obtain a
"prototyping kit" for use in a product you are developing.
Linear Technologies also sells/gives away such kits to potential
customers.

They'll be disappointed that you aren't ready to discuss the project yet.

(You should have heard the strange follow-up phone calls I got when I was
playing with the design of a steam car. Luckily, much of the work our
group
was actually engaged in was classified.)

Roger

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