[sdiy] Simple 'plug and play' transistor tester

[Graham Atkins]

 From Peak's website, this is the US source :-

http://www.anatekcorp.com/testequipment/meters.htm

The model is the DCA55

Graham

On 18 May 2009, at 22:59, Matthew Smith wrote:

> Quoth Justin Owen at 2009-05-19 04:25...
>> Can anyone suggest or recommend a simple/decent, (NPN 2N3904)  
>> transistor tester schematic or tool?
>>
>> Ideally I'd like something where I can just stick the transistor  
>> into a socket and be done...
>
> I have a Peak Atlas Component Analyser. It's a little blue thing  
> with a
> 2-line LCD, three leads with test clips and 2 buttons.
>
> Clip it onto transistors (junction, FET,) diodes, diode arrays and the
> like.  It tells you what type of component (like: junction transistor,
> diode, etc) you have connected and its parameters.  That's assuming  
> the
> component isn't broken - a cooked transistor often comes up as  
> "diode or
> diode junction."
>
> Very hand for reverse-engineering circuits when components have
> unreadable numbers.
>
> I've been very happy with it and don't recall it being that expensive.
>
> English device (as you may have guessed from 'analyser' with an 's',)
> not sure who carries them outside the UK.  Think I might have got mine
> from Farnell.
>
> Cheers
>
> M
>
>
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