{"id":1277,"date":"2015-04-28T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.pratt.edu\/open-source\/?p=302"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:20:59","slug":"component-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Component Tester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked up this little component tester off eBay for $15. Its a quick way to test parts as I assemble boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/arduino\/component_tester\/canvas2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found a coaster for it on the web but it was a little tall so I thinned it out and changed it so the battery lies flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/arduino\/component_tester\/canvas3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems pretty accurate as compared to my other L\/C Testers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/arduino\/component_tester\/canvas5.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It can do Transistors and Mosfets too<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/arduino\/component_tester\/canvas7.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even throwing a BiColor led in there shows the pinout and forward voltages at a glance. not bad at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/arduino\/component_tester\/canvas6.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It has these pads where you can hold down surface mount parts for testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/arduino\/component_tester\/canvas4.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Its based on a project that can be found here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikrocontroller.net\/svnbrowser\/transistortester\/\">http:\/\/www.mikrocontroller.net\/svnbrowser\/transistortester\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This software supports many different displays, even character based 16X2 or 20X4 ones if you don&#8217;t need the fancy graphics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems pretty active right now with commits just this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course now I have to breadboard one to play with the firmware&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up this little component tester off eBay for $15. Its a quick way to test parts as I assemble boards. I found a coaster for it on the web but it was a little tall so I thinned it out and changed it so the battery lies flat. It seems pretty accurate as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}