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Default Incorrectly marked transistors?


"Gareth Magennis"


I recently bought some TIP35C transistors from Farnell UK. Just before I
fitted one to an amplifier I thought I'd just check the pinouts.
Good job I did because instead of BCE they measured BEC.


** That is just not possible.

The middle leg is always the collector and metal tab used for heatsinking.

FFS - get an ohmmeter and verify that simple fact.

Seems your dopey microprocessor ( ie software) based POS has gone ape and
confused Collector with Emitter.



..... Phil