rafcio_21 wrote: than to apply probes to one pair once to the other pair of leads to determine if it is an npn or pnp or mosfet
Yes a bit OT - I do not know the effective way of checking / confirming ** mosfets with a meter that I will write this way: "reliable" although at such a level as bipolar ones. That's why a few years ago I made a crude, but effective tester of field effect transistors, incidentally based on the scheme found on Elektrod (
HERE post # 4). I even thought about throwing in some DYI, but first of all primo was not too much to brag about - the assembly of "3D" elements in a box, without any tiles

. Secondly, in the era of "computer" supervisors discussed in the current topic, the matter has become obsolete

** - unless it has a short between the leads - then it is known to the basket