This is exactly why I bought a 575, I have the same Peak Atlas as you and they’re great for identifying transistors and testing new ones, but not so well on used ones.
Yeah the Peak is great. I only tried their software curve tracer w/ USB Connection once when I first got it. I'm going to have to re-install the software and give it a shot with this one, I'm really curious to see what it will look like
I tried it out tonight. The Peak with the software via USB actually does a really good job - you can clearly tell that something is wrong with it when you let it trace the curve. It doesn't look the same as the 575, but I was testing at a higher voltage/current than the Peak is capable of. I set the 575 up as close as I could to the peak and they looked roughly similar. I can try to make a short vid on it.
@@pac1085 It would be interesting to see how it performs with the lower voltages that the Peak provides. That was the main reason why I wanted a 575, to test at operating voltages.
