Thread: Help It's smoking!!

You dont have to buy a surface mount capacitor...just quickly buy a standard tantalum from maplin and solder the legs directly to the pads...watch the polarity though. Im just trying to save you from hunting those hard to find parts.

Youll find that thereres other damaged components which causes the tantalum to blow at the first place. Infact just unsolder it first and see what happen...it may power up without it but unreliably.

Farnell should stock them

Good luck

Thanks Ricky327,

But, what is the part?

What value of cap should I use?

It was a faulty power connector that caused the problem.

Ta.

106 = 10 + 6 zero's (values in picofarad)

Electrolytic/tantatum are normally quoted in uF.

106 = 10uF, the E is the voltage rating = 16V.

Assuming those caps are the same...LOL

So you are looking for 10uF 16V SMD capacitor.

Check this out anyway for more info, right at the bottom :

http://library.solarbotics.net/piece..._cap_code.html

Farnell :

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/sea...0000~017009000

Before you order it look at some old PC parts, you find them in there as they are fairly common value.

That's what I'm looking for.

Yes I could use a non SMT version for now. it's right at the edge of the board. Could bend the legs around the edge of the board, If it works I'm very happy.

Big Thanks.

You are welcome.

The polarity marking on the tantalum can be confusing, just to remind you as I blew one up a week ago. I thought the big bar was the negative...I didnt pay attention to the small + sign

Tomorrow night, I will try to replace the part and test.

I'll let you know.

He said :

It was a faulty power connector that caused the problem.

Sound nasty as it pops the capacitor...I would have cried as Ill expect more damages...oh well lets not worry him