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Here's Retro Lemon. https://retrolemon.co.uk/retro-chip-tester-pro/194-retro-chip-tester-professional-atmega.html The designers website is here. https://8bit-museum.de/sonstiges/hardware-projekte/hardware-projekte-chip-tester-english/

Hi chaps and chapesses or any other persuasion you happen to have. I've been thinking of getting one of these devices for a while now and as I fancied a bit of a play I splashed out and bought one. You have to buy them as a kit and source your own parts which is easy for me as I had most of them. Full kits do appear on Ebay from time to time with a price to match. The PCB's come from Retro lemon and you can buy them with or without the main processor although it's probably not worth the hassle unless you have SMD soldering facilities. Anyway, I've just completed the build and it worked first time (apart from all the LED's I'd put in the wrong way round). It can test an ever expanding number of RAM, CMOS, TTL chips plus PAL's GAL's and all odds and sods of USSR chips etc. Just as a sample here's a 6116 RAM chip under test. Rotate.mp4 You can buy lots of additional adaptors for all sorts of unusual devices but I just went for the basic to start with. There is an extensive manual too covering the build, parts list and an even larger user manual. Early days yet but I think this is going to come in extremely handy. The only issue I have at present is I can't 3D print a case for it as it's just a centimeter or two bigger than my printer base.

Great stuff missy

very nice! change the LCD for a oled type! that you will like i am sure!!

Sorry John I missed all your replies for some reason! In the end I fitted 2 clip in fuse holders on top of the psu, this was purely to test a machine for a mate, however the 12v coin mech led did not light, could not find anything wrong with the psu so assumed the led was blown. anyway it was all a waste of time as the machine was dead.