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SMD code K117

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.

K117 on a chip resistor

117 Ω

117 Ω resistor

The K is both the decimal point and the multiplier: 117 Ω.

Check it with a meter

Lift one end and measure across it. A good one reads 117 Ω. Measuring it in circuit reads the parallel combination of everything around it, which is almost always lower, never higher: well above 117 Ω on the board is a fault. Open, or well above 117 Ω, means it has failed: burnt, cracked or corroded. That does not change what to fit: the marking still says 117 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 (MSOP-8, SOT-23-5), K117 is a part code instead. Those parts are listed below.

2 parts are printed K117

Not sure which one you have?

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 STMicroelectronics. What differs:

  • TSX561AILTSOT-23-55 pinsSOT-23-55 pins
    What it is
    Not recorded
    Maker
    STMicroelectronics
    Package
    SOT-23-5
    Pins
    5
    Source
    Published code list

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

  • TSX562AISTMSOP-88 pinsMSOP-88 pins
    What it is
    Not recorded
    Maker
    STMicroelectronics
    Package
    MSOP-8
    Pins
    8
    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.

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