No, but I just did, and it dropped 4.7V 

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> On Feb 8, 2019, at 23:12, David Forbes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> An NPN transistor has about a 0.5V diode drop from base to emitter when 
> turned on with a few milliamps of base current. Do you measure this?
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 7:08 PM Thomas Kummer <[email protected] wrote:
>> I tried a 10K and I tried a 2.2K, and a 1K, and then would ground the base, 
>> and still the decimal point lit up!! I took the resistor off the base and 
>> touched it with my finger, and the DP lit up!!! I’m 100% convinced that 
>> these are just cheap knockoff Chinese counterfeits as I tried through about 
>> 3 more transistors, and same thing happened, from now on I’m strictly 
>> sticking with Digi-Key for my components, no more eBay gambles I’ll just 
>> shell out the extra ~$10-$20. 
>> 
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