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SMD code 6V1U1

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.

6V1U1 is a capacitor marking

1.1 µF, 6 V

1.1 µF capacitor, 6 V

The value and the rated voltage are printed in full: 1.1 µF, 6 V. A value this large is usually an electrolytic, which is polarised: on an aluminium can the stripe marks the negative lead, and one fitted backwards can vent.

Check it with a meter

Lift one end and measure it on a capacitance range. A good one reads close to 1.1 µF. In circuit the meter also sees everything connected across it, so the reading means little until it is out. An electrolytic that has dried out can still read close to its value while its ESR has risen, which only an ESR meter shows. A domed or leaking top means it has failed. A failed reading does not change what to fit: the marking still says 1.1 µF, 6 V. Fit the same capacitance at the same or a higher voltage.

On a transistor or diode body (SOIC-8), 6V1U1 is a part code instead. Those parts are listed below.

2 parts are printed 6V1U1

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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.

TVS diode, all STMicroelectronics.

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.

TVS or ESD protection diode

Diode range, from the protected line to ground, part lifted if you can.

Working, it reads

A one-way part reads about 0.6 to 0.8 V forward and open in reverse. A two-way part reads open both ways. Arrays with several lines read as the datasheet's diagram draws them.

Dead, it reads

  • From the line to ground, the same reading both ways, near 0 V with a continuous beep: shorted.
  • A reading both ways on a one-way part: leaky.
  • A one-way part open both ways: failed open.
On the board
, a line reading shorted to ground can be this part or anything else on that line. Lift it: if the short goes with it, it has failed.
Compare:
The same part on the next line or connector pin is the healthy reading to compare with.
Watch for:
A two-way part reads open both ways when it is good, exactly like one that has failed open. The meter cannot tell them apart; an identical part on the next line can.

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

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