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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Curve Tracers
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:16:28 -0800
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:14:53 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:41:19 -0800, john larkin wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:02:49 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>On 11/20/2024 10:58 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Meanwhile, in China:
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://www.amazon.com/Transistor-Tracer-Feature-Graphic-Instrument/
>dp/B0D25RDFDV>
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone seems to still banging out 1970s-style CTs
>>>> 
>>>> Barbaric.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>Last chance buy before tariffs kick in and HP re-instates its whole 1987
>>>catalog to meet the demand for domestically-produced test gear.
>> 
>> You buy one. Give us a review.
>
>Perhaps you should consider developing one for production purposes?

Production semiconductor test is a big business. Automated, not
benchtop instruments with CRT analog displays.

A curve tracer could be a small USB box. 

I now that there are some cool "pin driver" ICs that are used in semi
testers and are not available to us civilians.