The average hobbyist should not rely on this tester because of the deficiencies listed below. Instead he or she should buy a transistor tester that can analyze the device and tell what the pin out is and polarity, N-channel or P-channel. Also it can tell if the device is a MOSFET or a regular power
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Gallium nitride power electronics will replace silicon and will make laptop power adapters smaller than a golf ball and will save major amounts of electricity. GaN devices will waste a lot less power, which will enable power electronics equipment to be made smaller and more efficient. Quote: “”GaN-based power electronics, on the other hand, could
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A basic one transistor regen receiver uses an MPF102 JFET to give the regenerative gain. Also uses two transistors to amplify the audio to drive an earphone. https://www.circuitbasics.com/what-are-fm-receivers/
The gate driver circuit shown in the screenshot uses BC547s, which are limited to less than 200 mA current. Instead, if the two transistors were BC337 or PN2222A which can easily handle over 500 mA, they could charge and discharge the gate faster, and thus reduce the dissipation in the MOSFET.
This very comprehensive website has a transistor and FET Curve tracer. Also a simpler curve tracer for all components. Click on box to download the schematic, etc. https://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/Curve_Tracer_advanced.php#
These are scans of the specifications for most of the Motorola HEP line of replacement transistors. Germanium and Silicon. Pages 10, 11, 12.
I watched this YouTube video where the author shows his FM transmitter using a big 60 volt power MOSFET. He also shows a very readable photo of the schematic. The video was made several years ago in 2012. He is powering this transmitter by connecting it to eleven 9 volt batteries in series, totalling 99
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I went online a few days ago and looked for some odd RF transistors, but instead I was shocked. Almost all of the parts I’ve been using are through hole parts, like transistors in a TO-92 package with wire leads. I looked at a few distributors such as Mouser, Avnet, Arrow, Digikey, Newark. I found
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I was reading some of Geo John’s projects and came across a crystal radio set that he built using two tuned coils. A crystal radio set refers to the type of detector used, which was once a galena crystal and a ‘catwhisker’ to find a sensitive spot on the crystal. Nowadays, that is no longer
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I captured this off a video and tried to make it a bit more readable. I think it was from Sanjev. I built it and it does work at 40 millivolts. The 2SK170 JFETs are not common, and may be difficult to obtain. Other JFETs can be used, but I haven’t tried them. I wrote
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