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SMD code 1602

Marking codes are not standardised, and the same code is reused by unrelated makers for unrelated parts. Below is every part in our tables printed with it, and any printed with a code that is easy to misread as it, from the manufacturers' own marking tables and published code lists.

1602 on a chip resistor

16 kΩ

16 kΩ resistor, 1%

160 followed by 2 zeros. Four digits is normally the 1% series.

Check it with a meter

Lift one end and measure across it. A good one reads 16 kΩ within 1%. Measuring it in circuit reads the parallel combination of everything around it, which is almost always lower, never higher: well above 16 kΩ on the board is a fault. Open, or well above 16 kΩ, means it has failed: burnt, cracked or corroded. That does not change what to fit: the marking still says 16 kΩ. A burnt resistor usually means the part it feeds drew too much, so find that before fitting a new one.

On a transistor or diode body (SOT-353, SOT-89, QFN), 1602 is a part code instead. Those parts are listed below.

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The only part printed 1602 in our tables

STUSB1602QTR

What it is
Not recorded
Maker
STMicroelectronics
Package
QFN
Pins
24
Source
Published code list

Is it dead?

Diode range and ohms range, part lifted.

Working, it reads

Depends on what it is. The datasheet, or an identical part, says.

Dead, it reads

  • Between two pins, the same reading both ways, near 0 V with a continuous beep: shorted.
  • Open between every pair of pins: failed open, or a part that reads open when working.
On the board
this is a first look only: the meter reads every path between those pins, and a short can be a neighbour. Lift one leg before you condemn it.
Compare:
If an identical part sits elsewhere on the board, measure it the same way: that is what this one should read.

A dead part still carries its marking. A short or an open says it has failed, not that it is a different part.

Was it this one?

Printed with a code easy to misread as 1602

One character differs, and it is one that is easy to confuse under a lamp. Each code has a page of its own.

Codes that begin with 1602

For a marking with its end worn or burnt off. Each code has a page of its own.

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