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RF, Microwave, Ham Radio / Re: Transistor tester
« Last post by madires on Today at 09:43:18 am »I have some of those units, even a couple with genuine ATmega processor (AY-AT) and have never experienced a Ge trannie being identified as a JFET.
It's not a major issue and can happen when the BJT's leakage current exceeds some threshold. Or if a JFET has a very low I_DSS. If you don't use such transistors it's possible that you'll never encounter that issue.