[sdiy] Funky Beta

[Bob Weigel]

Yeah but these were TO3 cases, alledging to be 2n3055's like I say.  I'm 
well aware of the physics of the situation at play :-).  But in this 
case I most definitely did not have them in wrong. *some* of them 
measured that low.  Others were fine.

ASSI wrote:

>On Sonntag 22 Juni 2008, Bob Weigel wrote:
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>>Hard to say.  I've seen power transistors in the past that measure
>>horrible...like..2....1....  for things that should be 15 minimum. 
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>They'd do that if you had C and E reversed and they would not like to be 
>in the circuit the wrong way either.
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>Achim.
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