Why waste components for a tester of something you test once or twice. The cost of this tester will exceed the price of some new op-amps. I think for an amateur the money is better spent on a protoboard on which you can make a temporary test bench for any IC and of curse use for a lot of other things. Ante ::)
The Mosfets works more like a vacuum tube than the bipolars, maybe they want the tube sound. The vacuum tubes are also sensitive devices..... if you drop them! ;D Ante ::)
Audioguru, The power surge is one of the reasons I want to use a Schmitt trigger if the light comes on slowly the transistor will be fried before the lamp starts to glow. If the transistor is driven directly to saturation it can cope much better with the current. Ante ::)
Hi, I built something like this once, it seems like a good choice. A standard glowdriver is not pulsed like this one. This will probably save you some plugs. About the software, there are some links at http://electronics-lab.com/index.html under
Hi Groovy, welcome! In a case like this I would use zero-cross optoisolator triac driver and current transformers to obtain maximum personnel safety and protection for the circuit. Another good reason for the zero-cross optoisolator triac driver is the