Timeline for How to determine SMD capacitor rating
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| Nov 10 at 17:58 | comment | added | Zymotik | @Ilya Thank you! | |
| Nov 4 at 11:13 | comment | added | Ilya | @Zymotik a good capacitor means no connection between terminals, there is a non-conductive gap between them (it won't beep through with a multimeter). Which is why you never replace capacitor with joined pads. Often, if a cap is dead (and therefore conducts while it shouldn't), the solution is to simply remove the cap. If it's not a critical cap like the one and only cap of a voltage regulator output, then your circuit will probably work even without it (or you can replace it of course, that's up to your judgement), | |
| Nov 1 at 12:13 | comment | added | Zymotik | @ilya electronics.stackexchange.com/users/253935/ilya When you say remove it, do you mean take it off the board and leave the circuit open? Or do you mean take it out and solder a joint between where it was on the PCB? I'm a newbie. I have damaged a capacitor off a IT76630M stepdown DC/DC converter and wondered if I can get away without it. Thanks. | |
| Sep 6, 2020 at 10:44 | comment | added | Karthik T | Thanks for your help, will mark as answer, as it does answer the specific question I asked. | |
| Sep 6, 2020 at 10:44 | vote | accept | Karthik T | ||
| Sep 6, 2020 at 10:43 | comment | added | Karthik T | Removing it didnt help, but I noticed a R100 resistor nearby measuring nearly 100 ohms, gonna try to replace that and try again. | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Karthik T | Thanks, will remove it and try. Will update here soon | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 14:12 | history | answered | Ilya | CC BY-SA 4.0 |