HOW TO – Test Bipolar transistors if you have an analog multimeter

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Phillip Torrone

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Glenn writes – “We know how a transistor works but some of us doesn’t really know how to test the component itself. Nowadays, most Digital Multimeters have sockets provided to test them, but what will you do if you have those old Analog/Needletype ones? This is a simple way to do it…” Link.

4 thoughts on “HOW TO – Test Bipolar transistors if you have an analog multimeter”

skot9000 says:

March 2nd, 2006 at 8:36 am

We just went over this in Electronics class today. But as i found out, this doesn’t always hold true for transistors in-circuit.
fpena says:

March 2nd, 2006 at 1:22 pm

This is one of the most useful blog entries i’ve seen.

Thanks!!!!!!!