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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzoax" data-source="post: 293700" data-attributes="member: 41248">Bob, thank you. Sure there are a gold bonding wires inside of them, i was planning a long time ago to test them... I just burned one SOT-23 triode and i took a picture with microscope.[ATTACH=full]40956[/ATTACH]So it all depends how much of gold they have, i just weighted them - it takes about 100 triodes for 1 gram.So, for example - if 1kg yields 1 g of gold - by today's price of 37€/kg - each gram would be 0.037€. On a picture of laptop motherboard above - there are about 50 pcs of triodes on one side - so it is approximately 100 pcs or 1g of triodes per laptop motherboard. So...roughly - it would take about 30 laptop boards to collect triodes that worth 1€. And you can finish that in a few minutes per board - so half an hour / hour.A good things are:-they are very easily taking off the PCB's-they are everywhere-no one will mind if they are missing from the board (when selling)-most likely the yields are quite better than 1g of gold/kg-there are also many other small IC's like this one (but different package)so you can collect them too along with this particular kindBut, at the end it all depends on - is your time worth doing this for 1, 2 or 3 euros per hour.</blockquote>

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