Another Saturn bias issue

[brandon7861]

Is it possible that the very low resistance you measure between the base and emitter is due to the VR's being set to zero? I know there is still a 1ohm resistor that should be showing up, but maybe reverse the ohm meter leads so its not letting the B-E junction share some of the meter current.

If this explains away the low resistance, I think Bayou might be right about the bias diode's Vf.

 

[nomadradio]

Gotta take one leg loose to check the bias diode. The circuit resistance in parallel is too low to obtain a meaningful test of the diode in-circuit. Just won't work.

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