RCA 832 81803

01sporty

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Can anyone help me identify this IC? It's 14 pin. The first line says RCA 832 and the second line says 81803. I've searched till I'm blue in the face.

It's in an oven controller that I'm trying to repair.
 

davenn

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hi
welcome to the forums :)

cant find any info on that one, it may have been one specifically made for the oven manufacturer and no info is available. A common problem

but you never know, some one else on here may have some RCA info :)

cheers
Dave
 

shrtrnd

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I usually try to find out how old the oven is, and the manufacturer.
It's possible your IC is a proprietary one, but RCA made several runs of IC's and
transistors that turned-out to not be very popular, and they dropped the manufacturing
lines for them.
Do you have or can you get a schematic for the controller?
If schematic doesn't show a full part number for the IC, can you determine what the chip does?
Can you determine from it's location on the board, what the IC does in the circuit?
I'd be looking at this as possibly an IC that doesn't have the full part number printed
on it, but it might show it in the schematic.
Google the manufacturer and model number of the oven and/or controller board, and
see if somebody else has posted information on the circuit problem you're having.
I've found where there's a will, there's a way, it just might take some time to track the
info down that you need.
 

shrtrnd

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p.s. I have a LOT of RCA transistors that have 5 digit numbers on them, and it takes
a lot of work to cross them to equivalents because they were just short-production runs
of actual RCA part numbers that nobody bothers with anymore. I'm just telling you
this because it's POSSIBLE your IC has a good RCA number that is just so obscure
that it's not listed anywhere you can find it. davenn is right that it could very well
be proprietary to the oven manufacturer, but might still be something you can find a
cross for.
I've got and old RCA cross ref at home, but won't be there until tonight. If I find some-
thing useful in it, I'll post again later. But I'd try the other things I suggested if I was you.
 

01sporty

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As much as I hate throwing something away, I think it's time to retire this antique and put together a new controller.

Thanks for taking a look at it.
 

shrtrnd

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Nothing in the RCA Replacement Guide I've got. Like you, I tried to cross it with other
manufacturer manuals I have, no luck.
RCA was doing a line of components for industrial use that they didn't make much money
off of, so they went to the 'SK' line in an attempt to make more money in consumer
electronics. I think you got one of those early components. The shame of it is, your
component may cross to something else in use, but I don't know how we'd find it.
 
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