B&K PRECISION 540 COMPONENT TESTER Manual??

[Joe R.]

At 05:40 PM 3/12/05 +0000, Wizard wrote:
>> Date:          Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:15:08 -0500
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>> From:          "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
>> Subject:       B&K PRECISION 540 COMPONENT TESTER Manual??
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>>    I picked this up yesterday and got it working last night. Does anyone
>> have a manual for it?  It's a small Oscilliscope-like device that's used
>> for testing transistors and the like. Oh yeah, I'm going to use it to fix
>> my vintage equipment.
>
>Very useful tool to trace the p/n junction curves.  Very useful to 
>isolate, open, shorted and more especially those diffcult to find 
>lazy transistors and diodes, matching two or more transistors etc.
>
>Usually called curve tracer.

    I thought so. I don't know why they didn't call it that.

>
>But you can do same with your scope using home made ocputus box 
>which I don't know the schematic for, my coworker has that little box 
>but he doesn't know where this schematic of this because he made that 
>curve tracer box decades ago.

    I have a couple of homemade ones and a Tektronix 5 mumble mumble but
this is a nice small unit. I really love the tektronix but it's HUGE! I
have to take everything else off my workbench just to put it on there!  I
can use the B&K without the manual but I like to know all the tricks and
details about the stuff that I use.

   Joe

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>Cheers,
>
>Wizard 
>>    Joe
>> 
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