Need pictures of electronic components

[club_med]

I know what the component looks like, but i dont know what its called.

I am looking for pictures of microchips and their components and/or images of the components such as capacitor,transistor,resistor...i need pic's.

Anyone know of such sites ?.
thanks,
cm.

[Richard_Cranium72]

My industries main product revolves around electronics.

The best catalog I've seen to date is Allied Electronics, 1072 pages of FREE information.

I see many items common to even the automobile industry that are purchased from the electronics mfgs and re-badged as GM, Ford, Kawasaki etc..

Here's a link for the catalog->


http://www.alliedelec.com/forms/literature.asp

DrVette

BTW, the online catalog is in slow loading "pdf" format with pitiful b&w pictures

[Richard_Cranium72]

Just noticed your addy, duh, I guess ordering the catalog is out huh ?

Try this instead,, a few links to basic electronics sites.

[golfcart]

I bet if you described the part to us the best you could, we would be able to name it for you. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[club_med]

This is what it looks like, according to my artistic skills http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif :
<IMG SRC="http://members.aon.at/system29/object.gif" border=0>

There are many of these on the chip in my mobile phone. The display wont work because one of these broke off. I took one out of an old walkman and it works when put in place.

What is this component called ?.

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[Target]

Looks like a resistor to me.

[club_med]

If only i could find a picture of this somewhere then i could post it here.

Thats why i was looking for a website with pictures of these components.

Anyone have any ideas ?.
cm.

[golfcart]

possibly a diode? <IMG SRC="http://www.mich1.net/diodes2.jpg" border=0>

[club_med]

nope http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

they look like cubes with drops of soldering on either side ?.

cm.

[skuz]

Could be many things. Having an Electronics formation behind me, I can tell you that I can't always tell by the look.

If you have a multimeter or ohmmeter, check it. If it is a resistor, it will display some value, if it is a diode, it will show almost 0 and if you invert your probes, it will show an infinite resistance.

[elevy]

The component looks and sounds to me to be a surface-mount resistor. Do the devices around it have small white numbers (usually 3 digits) written on them? If they do, these are the values of the resistors. e.g. A device that has 273 stamped on it would be a 27,000 (27K) ohm resistor.

If this is the case, then you probably got lucky in finding a resistor that is close in value to the one that broke off. Keep in mind that the engineers choose specific values for these components based upon loading and current demands of the components they are supporting. If you can, it's important to find out what value resistor is supposed to be in there, as that resistor may be providing some kind of current limiting effect to the display, or it could be on an enable line, an address or data line, etc.

Good Luck!

elevy

[club_med]

Sorry Im using the wrong terminology, i mean this thing is on the cicuit board http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif..not 'chip'.

cm.

[Bovon]

I will have to agree that the drawing (which is pretty good, actually) is a surface mounted resistor, diode or maybe even an inductor. It is pretty hard to tell what a surface mounted component is by looking at the board. Usually only by looking at a schematic and locating the item can you be sure. Personally, I have not seen a surface mounted capacitor, but then...I haven't done any repairs or trouble shooting of electronic devices in several years. The components got smaller, and my eyes got 'badder'...LOL...so, I gave that up.

[Graham]

I concur (big word for the day), looks like a surface mount component.
Could be identified from the markings, diodes and electrolytics (capacitors) will have a band at one end, resistors and non-polarised caps will just have numbers (usually), they read as elevy says.
Bovon they always print the numbers in special fuzzy ink, just so old gits like me cant read them anymore http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

G

[elevy]

Bovon is right. The only way to be completely sure of what you need is to get ahold of the schematic(s) for the phone. That might be easier said than done. Does anyone know if Sams is still publishing them? You might check your local library...

[club_med]

Well the problem has been solved, the mobile works, and the display works.

I would however like to educate myself a little thats all http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

cm.

[club_med]

Thanks for the help people http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

cm.

[vintron]

it's a resister.... one of those micro ones.

[Crot^^^]

Clubmed it can be many things with out useing test equip it's going to be hard to tell the smaller things get the harder they are to id I'd have to say it was a coil or possible a resistor try to see if there are any markings on it

[Warthog]

Glad I could help, clubmed
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
Warthog

[club_med]

lol Wart, you saved my day!

cm.

[Bsdboy]

CM I found these for you:
http://www.diy-efi.org/~bbowling/bscan.html
http://www.robotroom.com/PCB3.html

This is the best I could do,hope it helps

Bsdboy

[club_med]

Thanks bsdboy!

The piece I am talking about is similar to the below object (with red arrow).

The one on my mobile phone however is brwon in color and has no markings, at least none that i could make it out, its **** tiny.

<IMG SRC="http://members.aon.at/system29/object2.gif" border=0>

cm.

[Graham]

Often, the brown ones are capacitors.

G