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Old 02-04-2011, 02:51 AM
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I decided to just keep it around till I can take the chassis to the college and break out a Huntington Tracker on the ceramic disc caps. Actually, I will take the time to look at ALL caps with this expensive equipment that enables me to look at a wave form of sorts called a "footprint" that tests components IN CIRCUIT!
I want to correct my mistake in the name of this device. It is a Huntron Tracker. Also, today I found out that it is not necessarily as big of a magic troubleshooting tool as I initially thought. I found out that the expected "footprints" are atered by components in parallel when it comes to resistors, capacitors, inductors etc. So, unless there is some hidden secret in the manual it is still snip-a-lead! I think this device is more suited to semiconductor devices.
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