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Farnell carry such a device  in their catalog, item code 888-3310, Atlas
Component Analyser.

Vasile Surducan wrote:
>
> In my opinion HOW to do this is very interesting, but the result
> is a toy. I can't imagine who will use this tool. Here every
> child know to handle with a digital multimeter and find quickly what have
> in his hands, a npn, a pnp or a fet...
> And a digital multimeter is cheapest than a pic based tool ( even 12c509 )
> and can do more things.
> Just a thought.
> Vasile
>
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Dan Michaels wrote:
>
> > Roman Black wrote:
> > >Maybe as another suggestion for a competition
> > >idea, what about a universal semiconductor tester?
> > >Like three leads, A,B,C, and a 2-line LCD display.
> > >You can clip it on any transistor or diode and
> > >it tells which leg is which, NPN, PNP, fet,
> > >darlington, etc etc, even measures beta and
> > >saturation drop. All these things would be easy
> > >to measure if you could adjust voltages and measure
> > >voltages, say with a 16F876 or even a F628.
> > >Just an idea. Hey, i'd like one!!
> >
> >

Nino.
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