SMD code 68Z
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.
68Z on a chip resistor
0.499 Ω
0.499 Ω resistor, 1%
EIA-96 precision code: 68 selects 4.99 from the E96 series and Z multiplies by 0.1. These are 1% parts.
Check it with a meter
Lift one end and measure across it. A good one reads 0.499 Ω within 1%. Measuring it in circuit reads the parallel combination of everything around it, which is almost always lower, never higher: well above 0.499 Ω on the board is a fault. Open, or well above 0.499 Ω, means it has failed: burnt, cracked or corroded. That does not change what to fit: the marking still says 0.499 Ω. 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 (USP-6C, SOT-23-5, SOT-23), 68Z is a part code instead. Those parts are listed below.
2 parts are printed 68Z
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Answer up to 4 quick questions and these 2 parts are ranked, with a meter test that settles it. It works on a dead part too.
BZX78-C68SOT-893 pins, NexperiaSOT-893 pinsNexperia
- What it is
- Not recorded
- Maker
- Nexperia
- Package
- SOT-89
- Pins
- 3
- Details
- equivalent BZX87C68
- Source
- Published code list
Is it dead? The meter test is below: This part.
HZU6.8ZSOD-3232 pins, RenesasSOD-3232 pinsRenesas
- What it is
- Not recorded
- Maker
- Renesas
- Package
- SOD-323
- Pins
- 2
- Details
- Z-diode: 6.47..7V, 200mW
- Source
- Published code list
Is it dead? The meter test is below: Silicon diode.
Is it dead? One meter test per kind
Parts of the same kind are tested the same way, so each test is here once. Each part above points to its own.
This part
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.
Silicon diode
Diode range, part lifted or one leg off the pad. Red probe on the anode.
Working, it reads
About 0.5 to 0.8 V anode to cathode, and open the other way. Small switching diodes read about 0.6 to 0.7 V; large rectifiers can read a little lower.
Dead, it reads
- The same reading both ways round, near 0 V with a continuous beep or the same middling value: shorted.
- Open both ways: failed open.
- A reading the wrong way round as well: leaky.
- 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.
- Watch for:
- A three-pin body can hold two diodes. With a common pin they read two junctions from that pin, just like a transistor; in series they read two drops end to end. Test each pair the datasheet names.
A dead part still carries its marking. A short or an open says it has failed, not that it is a different part.
Printed with a code easy to misread as 68Z
One character differs, and it is one that is easy to confuse under a lamp. Each code has a page of its own.
Codes not listed here are printed on 5 more parts.
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