PNP and NPN transistor leads all wrong

While in breadboard mode the leads of both transistors are correctly identified from left to right as emitter, and base, collector, in schematic mode the labels are all wrong and in PCB mode the silk screen is backwards (CBE instead of EBC).  Now while the latter is not that big of a deal--you just have to remember to install your transistors backwards--the schematic issue is huge, especially for those of us who design our circuits primarily in schematic mode.  This issue is for both npn and pnp transistors.

Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago by 0x24a537r9

Hi,

I'm new to Fritzing and loving it, but this problem has bitten me as well. As I'm a teacher, it's rather important to have the schematic agree with the breadboard.

Is someone working on this? If not, would it be appropriate for me to take a look at this? Any pointers? I'm a long-time programmer and embedded Linux engineer, so I want to help but I also want to do things the way this culture likes.

Michael

Posted 5 months ago by michaelshiloh

Hi Michael, this issue is also serious to us, and sorry for not replying to this thread earlier. 

We have made an attempt to fix it in the latest release from last week, please have a look. If you find it still to be incorrect, feel free to investigate it further. The pin definitions can be found in the part definition, in this case in \parts\core\transistor_signal_NPN_TO92.fzp. It contains the mappings of pins to corresponding id in the SVG illustrations.

Thanks, andré

Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago by André Knörig

Thanks Andre! The latest release indeed did solve this problem. Thanks!

I'm using this right now to provide notes for my class.

Michael

Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago by michaelshiloh

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