CV7112 - Gain?

[Jaicen_solo]

I have a handful of these that I sourced. They're brand new and come in little plastic baggie/tube things.
I thought that i'd do a quick gain check on them, however my DMM is coming up with either 000 or very low values like 003 etc..
Am I doing something wrong, as I can't seem to get a pinout that gives me a gain reading.
I plan to try these in my upcoming NPN Fuzz Face build, but can anyone give me any pointers on what's going on?

[WangoFett]

Looks like you might have the emitter and collector pins swapped in your test.

[trjones1]

If I remember correctly, CV7112s do not have a set emitter or collector.  You can use either of the outside leads as emitter or collector.  The orientation just changes the amount of gain available.  I've made a few Rangemasters with these transistors and they've always sounded great (I got them pretested from Small Bear).

Sorry, I guess I don't have an answer to your question.

[MartyMart]

They should have a red dot that in this case ( was spoken about before ) indicates the collector.

BUT - as they are a very high quality military spec device they work almost exactly the same either way around !!
( symetrical - almost )
I have made a few great NPN Rangemasters and FF's with these, either you have a "duff" one or your hfe checker
is not working right.
From collector "dot" it's a straight line through the legs of C-B-E

MM

[WangoFett]

Was it military spec for circuit assemblers to be able to get transistor pins mixed up but only in one particular way when building military stuff?
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

[bobson]

Hi, do you still have these  transistors?