SMD code BVA in SMA
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.
2 parts in SMA are printed BVA
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Answer up to 4 quick questions and these 4 parts are ranked, with a meter test that settles it. It works on a dead part too.
ATV06A200JB-HFSMATVS diode, ComchipTVS diodeComchip
- What it is
- TVS diode
- Maker
- Comchip
- Package
- SMA
- Pins
- 2
- Details
- 20 V 600 W bidirectional TVS diode
- Source
- Manufacturer datasheet
Is it dead? The meter test is below: TVS or ESD protection diode.
TPSMAJ20ASMATVS diode, DOWOTVS diodeDOWO
- What it is
- TVS diode
- Maker
- DOWO
- Package
- SMA
- Pins
- 2
- Source
- Manufacturer datasheet
Is it dead? The meter test is below: TVS or ESD protection diode.
2 more parts have no package on record. Nothing rules them out, so they stay.
TPSMA6L20ATVS diode, DiotecTVS diodeDiotec
- What it is
- TVS diode
- Maker
- Diotec
- Package
- Not recorded
- Pins
- Not recorded
- Details
- SMD Transient Voltage Suppressor Diodes
- Source
- Manufacturer datasheet
Is it dead? The meter test is below: TVS or ESD protection diode.
BC857UFAPNP transistor, AUK SemiconductorPNP transistorAUK Semiconductor
- What it is
- PNP transistor
- Maker
- AUK Semiconductor
- Package
- Not recorded
- Pins
- Not recorded
- Details
- PNP transistor: GP, 50V, 100mA, 200mW, B=110..220, 150MHz
- Source
- Published code list
Is it dead? The meter test is below: PNP transistor.
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.
PNP transistor
Diode range, part lifted or its base leg off the pad.
Working, it reads
Black probe on the base reads about 0.6 to 0.75 V to the emitter and to the collector, and open the other way round. Collector to emitter reads open both ways.
Dead, it reads
- Collector to emitter the same both ways, near 0 V with a continuous beep: shorted. The commonest failure.
- The base the same both ways to another pin, near 0 V or a middling value: a shorted junction.
- Only one junction reads, or none: a junction has failed open. It then looks like a diode.
- A reading the wrong way round, where it should be open: 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 pair of diodes with a common pin reads just like a transistor, and some transistors carry a built-in diode or resistor. The datasheet says which.
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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