16 May
2006
16 May
'06
6:20 p.m.
Well my ISA video capture cards arrived Monday and I noticed a part had
snapped on a Tantalum? Capacitor.
Anybody know what spec part this is and where to find another one (nothing
to solder leads to on the part where the metal leg got ripped off, solder
pads on the board are intact).
Here is the picture of the part in question:
http://home.neo.rr.com/unknownk/
Has a brown looking line on the one side, orange body (or dark yellow)
markings are: 106, 16k, 310 from top to bottom (the small K has a bar under
and over it).
I hope this is a common part.
Sure sounds like a tantalum bead capacitor.
The '106' encodes the value. Read it as 10*10^6 picofarads -- that is 10uF.
the '16' might well be the working voltage (sounds about right for a
capacitor on such a PCB).
My guess is that it''s a supply decoupler and that the board will work
fine without it. If you want to replace it (and I guess you should),
trace the connections (with an ohmmeter). Hopefully one side will go to
ground, the other to a known supply line. You cna then determine the
polarity (if it goes to a +ve supply line, then the ground connections is
the -ve side, and so on). Make sure you fit the replacement the right way
round, they explode if you get them wrong, and they smell horrible.
-tony