I recently came across a low-cost component tester on eBay - see eBay item 361094470192.
For about €20 including shipping it looked like a useful piece of equipment as it is capable of testing and measuring both Bipolar and FET transistors, Capacitors ( including ESR measurement ) , resistors , inductors and diodes.
I ordered one and it took about 3 weeks to arrive from Hong Kong.
this is not a detailed review , just a few photos of the device testing a few random components.
The tester is powered by a 9v battery and powers up to the following splash-screen -
First I plugged in a bipolar NPN transistor into the ZIF socket and pressed the 'test' button .
It identified it correctly and indicated which pins on the ZIF socket corresponded to the emitter , base and collector. It also displayed the hFE and forward voltage measurements for the device.
Next I tried an IRF510 MOSFET -
A 100 uF electrolytic capacitor -
An inductor wound on a ferrite toroid core -
A 6.8k resistor -
A 10 nF capacitor -
quite a useful device for €20 !
For about €20 including shipping it looked like a useful piece of equipment as it is capable of testing and measuring both Bipolar and FET transistors, Capacitors ( including ESR measurement ) , resistors , inductors and diodes.
I ordered one and it took about 3 weeks to arrive from Hong Kong.
this is not a detailed review , just a few photos of the device testing a few random components.
The tester is powered by a 9v battery and powers up to the following splash-screen -
First I plugged in a bipolar NPN transistor into the ZIF socket and pressed the 'test' button .
It identified it correctly and indicated which pins on the ZIF socket corresponded to the emitter , base and collector. It also displayed the hFE and forward voltage measurements for the device.
Next I tried an IRF510 MOSFET -
A 100 uF electrolytic capacitor -
An inductor wound on a ferrite toroid core -
A 6.8k resistor -
A 10 nF capacitor -
quite a useful device for €20 !
