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Dirt cheap and simple scope-based component tester - curve tracer
qu1j0t3:
--- Quote from: m3vuv on August 20, 2018, 11:30:53 pm ---the link for the pc software is dead.
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If you mean Steber's software? It's here: http://www.arrl.org/forum/topics/view/153
IconicPCB:
In the early eighties i worked at HP Joseph Street repair and calibration facility in Blackburn ( a suburb of Melbourne).
A note came out showing how to use a HP45 wallwart to knock up a curve tracer simply using the transformer and a current limiting resistor.
microMANIAC:
--- Quote from: digsys on June 09, 2012, 11:57:09 pm ---My Elektor (Heathkit) Transistor curve tracer, from 1980 I think, was my favourite test tool by far !!
I had the Hamegs, but they were no where near as nice. Being able to drive a transistor to destruction,
observing failure mode, then just backing off to recover ... multiple traces, sure miss it.
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Anybody else here miss some of those old Heathkit beasties?
Wimberleytech:
Yup, built it in 1974 from this Popular Electronics Magazine. And...I still have it...still works.
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