Hi Patrick, I saw a lot of replies to your question. Here are my five cents:
The Huntron Tracker is very nice if you have two similar pieces of equipment (or circuit boards). From which: one is faulty, the other one still okay, or has a different fault. By probing around you can easily find the faulty part or component, by looking for differences in the Huntrons display. E.g. a faulty transitor will give a different curve, even when other circuitry is connected to it.
However, I used to work at an small repair shop. Here we also got lots of equipment for which the schematics were not available (usually it was classified or obsolete). Although we had access to a Huntron Tracker, we didn't use it much. Most of the time, a multimeter and some "common sense" did the trick.
One final remark, about the reply from Bruce; There are oscilloscopes out there who have the component tester (that is what he reffered to) built in. My first oscilloscope I bought, a Handykit, has the component-tester built-in. For that reason that scope is still with me ;-)
Good luck, best regards, Jeroen Patrick wrote:
Hi Everyone I have consistently had success repairing laboratory instruments(my small business) when I have a schematic and I have consistently failed without one, lots of opportunities are slipping threw my fingers. I want to invest in tools that will help me troubleshoot without a schematic. I was thinking about getting a Huntron tracker. Has anyone had any experience with one? Could you feedback? Are there other tools that have helped you fix circuit boards without a schematic? Thanks in advance-Patrick _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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