It’s generally acknowledged that curve tracers, originally introduced in the late 1950s for characterizing vacuum tubes, then later for transistors, are no longer up to the task of characterizing ...

Some instruments merely make measurements, while others offer insights. My top three candidates for the latter role are the oscilloscope, the spectrum analyzer, and the curve tracer. While measuring ...

Regardless of the mythical qualities that are all too often attributed to vacuum tubes, they are still components that can be damaged and wear out over time. Much like with transistors and kin, they ...

Santa Rosa, CA. Keysight Technologies has introduced three advanced curve tracer packages for its B1506A Power Device Analyzer. Designed to provide power device and power electronics equipment ...

Fluke, a specialist in test and measurement instruments for solar installers, aims to bring streamlined testing services to utility-scale solar technicians with the announcement of the PVA-1500 Series ...

This article appeared in Evaluation Engineering and has been published here with permission. Curve tracers are electronic test devices that are similar to oscilloscopes in many ways. Fundamentally, ...

In response to an online discussion on the Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange, [Joseph Eoff] decided to prove his point by slapping together a bare-bones IV curve tracer using an Arduino Nano and a ...