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SMD code BW1

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 are printed BW1

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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.

all SOT-23, 3 pins. What differs:

  • 2SB736-1SOT-23NEC ElectronicsNEC Electronics
    What it is
    Not recorded
    Maker
    NEC Electronics
    Package
    SOT-23
    Pins
    3
    Details
    Si-pnp: AF, 60V, 300mA, 200mW, B=110..180, 100MHz
    Source
    Published code list

    Is it dead? The meter test is below: This part.

  • 2SB736BW1SOT-23RenesasRenesas
    What it is
    Not recorded
    Maker
    Renesas
    Package
    SOT-23
    Pins
    3
    Source
    Published code list

    Is it dead? The meter test is below: This part.

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.

Printed with a code easy to misread as BW1

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 BW1

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

Codes not listed here are printed on 73 more parts.

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