Quick & Dirty MOSFET Test

Quick and Dirty MOSFET Test

In this video we take advantage of the insulated gate of an N channel enhancement mode MOSFET to perform a simple test and find out if the DUT is good!

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[mjmurawski]

I like your Channel, I'm new to electronics and Your explanation Was 100 % UNDERSTOOD . Thank You

[gartmorn]

Learning loads on your channel. We don't all have fancy meters! Built a wee esr meter recently and am impressed!

[michaelmarciales]

Best tutorial for testing mosfet, i salute you from philippines

[rajanne]

Usually easy to test mosfet like this, but in a circuit board without desoldering it, the gate to drain resistance conducts away the gate charge rapidly so you can't use this method. Here's how to do it: Just connect an extra probe wire to the DMM positive probe and clip it to mosfet gate on the pcb itself or a circuit track there, and then measure drain to source resistance, with your dmm probes, you will see the same conduction! It will go back to high resistance immediately you unclip the gate extra probe! By bleeding the charge thru gate to ground resistance present on any mosfet using circuit. Some technicians use a 9 v battery with leads soldered to it and connect to gate and ground on circuit board, then use dmm to measure drain to source resistance! Use either method.

[terranceroybal]

No one explained to me mosfets like that. Awsome. Thanks.

[XylophoneAtomique]

That's the best video I've seen all week, and I've seen a lot :D

[rely]

Simple explanation, easy to follow the instruction. This is a good tuitorial, thank u. Nice one.

[vilasbapukadam]

It's best MOSFETS testing method.Thank you sir

[larrygenedavis]

Easily the best video on testing a mosfit . Thanks .

[dowboykfx]

Best video on this, hands down. Thank you.

[greanfinisher]

What a nice and informative video! Thank you. You sure helped me out!

[howardc]

Looks very simple to test. Thanks a lot.

[kefifali]

Short and well explained, i really enjoyed it, thanks.

[DarthMaul]

Niiiice, couldn't be more simpler than this, thanks!

[TrillChords]

Amazing tutorial demonstrating how MOSFETS work! Helped a ton ♥️

[minhaj]

Very very easy and usefully way to understand god bless you bro👍

[abinashdani]

The testing probes are as excellent as you are sir,

[YouAllKnowBob]

Quick, but not very dirty! ;-) Nice, handy, quick field test! Good show as usual.

[patrickmulholland]

may not work with a better quality meter as usually the better the meter the less load it puts on the components not all the time but sometimes an analog meter would be good for it too, love your test thankyou

[roimark]

In testing/checking MOSFETs using Multi-meter, when the gate is charged, why some MOSFETs (N-channel & P-channel), the drain to source let us say 0.002 or less reading, others starts with more higher like 0.435 and running up as fast as a second or half a second until showing infinite? What does it mean? Does all MOSFETs behave like that?