Re: WANTED : in-circuit IC tester

Has anyone had good luck with the HP10529 ? I seem to get a lot of false ic failures during tests. Have you seen the HP ever show a failed IC test good?

Justin

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Fabrizio Vasile <fabrizio.vasile@gmail.com> wrote:

>Yes, ABI Boardmaster 4000 in another tool on my list but nowadays it's
>pretty rare and still quite expensive.Besides it seems it's quite fragile in
>some parts.Anyway it's a great piece of equipment but , like other
>in-circuit tester, has its pro and con.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Coates" <mike@the-coates.com>
>To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist@flippers.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] WANTED : in-circuit IC tester
>
>
>>I have an ABI 4000, and find that if it tells you an IC is good, then it
>>is, if it tells you it's bad, then double check it, because it's wrong 60%
>>of the time!
>>
>> however, for repairing things for which schematics are not available, or
>> it has a hidden PCB (where there's 2 or 3 pcb's for instance, that plug
>> into each other) it still proves useful.
>>
>> Once I have set it up, I tend to check everything in the area of concern,
>> and put white stickers on anything dodgy - then use the fluke and the
>> probe to decide if they really have failed!
>>
>> On 30/07/2013 17:54, Matthew Rossiter wrote:
>>> Has anyone here ever used the ICT-101 with much success? I had one for
>>> a while and the results were so sketchy that I eventually sold it back
>>> on ebay. I saw a lot of good IC's come up as FAIL. Once you lose a
>>> certain amount of trust with a tester, it's really not much use.
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