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Answer: First you have to find the Base, with your millimeter set to diodes play around with the probes between the three pins until you get a reading between one pin to both the other two pins that pin will be your Base, if your red probe is on that pin then it is a NPN transistor, if it is the black probe then it is a PNP, there will be a slight difference in the reading, the pin with the smallest reading will be the Collector and the larger is the Emitter

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the same as on an ordinary transistor

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What are the 3 legs of a phototransistor?

Emitter, base & collector.


What are the three terminals of a transistor?

Emitter, Base, Collector.


What are the three terminals of transitor?

base, emitter, collector


Why a transister has three terminals?

Because there are three components within a transistor... An emitter, a base and a collector. Think of it like shining a torch at a mirror. The the torch is the emitter, the mirror is the base and the reflected beam is the collector.


What is the usage of third terminal in transistor?

There are three terminals on a transistor. Some have four, where the fourth is a screen.The normal three are Emitter, base and collector. The Emitter emits electrons, the collector collects them and the base controls the flow.


Why is collector current slightly less than emitter?

The percentage of doping in emitter is higher than collector region.hence large current is flow to emitter than collector.


Why is collector current less than emitter current?

The percentage of doping in emitter is higher than collector region.hence large current is flow to emitter than collector.


What is the emitter base collector in 2N5777 photo transistors?

1st pin is emitter then collector and base


Why is collector slightly less than emitter?

some of emitter current goes out base instead of collector


Why output of common emitter amplifier is inverted?

In a common emitter amplifier, the base-emitter current causes a corresponding collector-emitter current, in the ratio of hFe (beta gain) or collector resistance over emitter resistance, which ever is less. Since this ratio is usually greater than one, the differential collector current is greater than the differential base current. This results in amplification of the base signal. As you increase the base-emitter current, the collector-emitter current also increases. This results in the collector being pulled towards the emitter, with the result that the differential collector voltage decreases. This results in inversion of the base signal.


Why is collector current increased slowly with the increase of collector to emitter voltage of a common emitter?

The percentage of doping in emitter is higher than collector region.hence large current is flow to emitter than collector.


Explain why the collector voltage is approximately zero when a transistor has a collector-emitter short?

The collector voltage is not necessarily approximately zero when a transistor has a collector-emitter short. It depends on whether or not there is an emitter resistor.A typical collector-emitter circuit has two resistors, one in the collector and one in the emitter. One or both of them might be zero, i.e. not present, depending on design requirements. The collector-emitter junction represents a third resistor, the value of which is dependent on base-emitter vs collector-emitter current ratios and hFe.If the collector-emitter junction is shorted, then this circuit degrades to a simple voltage divider, or single resistor, and the collector-emitter voltage differential will be approximately zero. Simply calculate the voltage based on the one or two resistances.Results could be different than calculated, if the resistors are small in camparision to the shorted impedance, and it could be different depending on the base to emitter or collector relationship in that fault state, though the latter case is usually negligible due to the relatively high resistances of the base bias circuit.