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So what do you do when you need a modern transistor curve tracer?

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pizzigri:

--- Quote from: Martin72 on February 20, 2023, 11:53:06 pm ---
What should have changed that it no longer requires a Curve Tracer ?
I am currently building one based on Arduino.


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Hello Martin, sorry to resurrect this thread, did you finish the tracer you mentioned? I’m really interested!
Franco

coppercone2:
they are awesome you actually know what is going on  :-//

I think if you think you don't care it means that your not doing difficult circuits or used to working with serious copypasta engineering / generic clone designs

I personally never used one because I was mostly experimenting with op-amps and integrated circuits that are too complex. Now I am starting to get interested in more customized and special circuits (and attempting more difficult equipment repairs) so its a great thing to own.

guenthert:

--- Quote from: dobsonr741 on February 19, 2023, 10:20:13 pm ---Why would one want to use a curve tracer in 2023?

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   No idea, but when the company I worked for moved into flashy new office buildings at Santa Clara square in 2019, ADI became our neighbor.  They were a bit slow to move (well, I suppose, moving electronics lab equipment is more cumbersome than some server racks) and for a few weeks I could peak into their lab on ground floor.  I saw there an old (seventies?) Tektronix curve tracer and was wondering if they were about to dispose of it and I could score.  Then however I saw half a dozen more of those in as many work stations.  Clearly, they were still using those, heaven knows what for.  I never figured that out as shortly afterwards they frosted the windows at eye level.

RoGeorge:

--- Quote from: guenthert on November 11, 2024, 09:16:19 am ---Clearly, they were still using those, heaven knows what for.  I never figured that out as shortly afterwards they frosted the windows at eye level.

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