Those wicked Chinese keep coming up with some awesome and cheap stuff.....
This tests about everything, transistors, caps, resistors,diodes etc. etc.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Transistor-Tester-Diode-Triode-Capacitance-ESR-Meter-MOS-PNP-NPN-/121296374687?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c3dd3cb9f
Received this about a week ago and it is as nice tool for sure. However there is one problem with the one I got. Of course, this unit has a bootleg ZIF socket. For those not knowing: a ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) from a reliable manufacturer (Textool, 3M) costs about the same price as this entire device. So it's not hard to figure out that despite the Textool name on the socket, this is not the real product but a fake.
These fake one's are available on ebay for cheap prices. The one on my tool does not work properly. I can turn the little handle 360 degrees which should not happen. Also, the socket does not clamp the parts to be tested firmly. This results in unreliable test results. I had to manualy push the parts to the clamps to get any results at all.
So I contacted the seller and he's sending me 2 new sockets. I was so kind to say I would solder it myself. Of course this product should arrive in perfect order but hey....I want it to work.
I don't have very much confidence in the other two sockets he's sending because these are bootlegs too of course, I might end up soldering wires with crocodile clamps to the unit which might be handier anyway.
Apart from this all it seems to work nicely for sure. It indicated some of the bad caps from Béla's WG6100 deflection board correctly, those are not electrolytic caps so these are not indicated correctly to be bad with my Russian ESR tester.,however that one works better with electrolytic caps AND can also test in circuit, which this multi tester can't.
So both tools compliment eachother nicely, will make a video and full report once I got a proper working socket.
