SMD code search: identify a part by its marking
0.024 Ω resistor. 1 part is printed R024.
R024 on a chip resistor
0.024 Ω
0.024 Ω resistor
The R stands in for the decimal point, which is how sub-ohm and fractional values are printed. The same marking also reads as 24 nH on an inductor or 0.02 pF on a capacitor, and nothing in the code says which; the body of the part does.
Other readings of the same characters, most likely first
- 24 nH inductor
- 0.02 pF capacitor
Check it with a meter
Lift one end and measure across it. A good one reads 0.024 Ω. Measuring it in circuit reads the parallel combination of everything around it, which is almost always lower, never higher: well above 0.024 Ω on the board is a fault. Open, or well above 0.024 Ω, means it has failed: burnt, cracked or corroded. That does not change what to fit: the marking still says 0.024 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-6B, DFN), R024 is a part code instead. Those parts are listed below.
The only part printed R024 in our tables
R5325K024A
- What it is
- Not recorded
- Maker
- Ricoh
- Package
- DFN
- Pins
- Not recorded
- Details
- VR-IC: LDO, Dual out, sep. CE, Vo1=1.2V, Vo2=3V, 150mA
- Source
- Published code list
Is it dead?
Voltage, board powered, black probe on ground. Then ohms with the power off.
Working, it reads
Input pin at the supply, output pin at its rated voltage, and the enable pin high if it has one.
Dead, it reads
- Output equal to the input: the pass element has shorted. Everything after it may have taken the full input.
- Input present, enable high, no output: failed open, or holding itself off into a shorted load. Power off and measure output to ground.
- Power off, input to output near 0 Ω: shorted.
- On the board:
- An output at 0 V is often a shorted load with the regulator in current limit. Lift the output pin: if the short stays on the board, the regulator may be fine.
- Compare:
- The same regulator on another rail or another board shows the right voltages and the right resistances.
- Watch for:
- Makers put input, output and ground on different pins in the same package, so take them from this part's datasheet. Diode or ohms readings between its pins say little; check it powered.
A dead part still carries its marking. A short or an open says it has failed, not that it is a different part.
Was it this one?
2 more parts have codes that begin with R024
Codes that begin with R024
For a marking with its end worn or burnt off. Each one shows its full printed code.
DC-DC converter, all USP-6B, 6 pins, all Torex.
XC9227D24CDprinted RD24CUSP-6B
Printed RD24C. Only the start matches what you typed, so this fits only if the rest of the marking is worn off.
- What it is
- DC-DC converter
- Maker
- Torex
- Package
- USP-6B
- Pins
- 6
- Details
- DC/DC voltage converter IC: PWM-PWM/PFM st-dwn, 1.2MHz, 2.4V±1%, 600mA, -CE, PUR
- Source
- Published code list
Is it dead?
Voltage with the board powered; ohms from each pin to ground with it off.
Working, it reads
Supply pin at its voltage and the output doing what the datasheet says. Readings between pins depend on the part.
Dead, it reads
- A pin near 0 Ω to ground or to the supply pin where an identical part does not read that: failed short.
- Supply present, output stuck: failed, or its load has.
- On the board:
- A pin shorted to ground on the board can be anything on that net. Lift the pin to be sure.
- Compare:
- The surest reference is the same IC on a working board, measured pin by pin.
- Watch for:
- Its protection diodes can read like junctions between pins, even like a transistor. That proves nothing either way.
A dead part still carries its marking. A short or an open says it has failed, not that it is a different part.
XC9227D246Dprinted RD246USP-6B
Printed RD246. Only the start matches what you typed, so this fits only if the rest of the marking is worn off.
- What it is
- DC-DC converter
- Maker
- Torex
- Package
- USP-6B
- Pins
- 6
- Details
- DC/DC voltage converter IC: PWM-PWM/PFM st-dwn, 600kHz, 2.4V±1%, 600mA, -CE, PUR
- Source
- Published code list
Is it dead?
Voltage with the board powered; ohms from each pin to ground with it off.
Working, it reads
Supply pin at its voltage and the output doing what the datasheet says. Readings between pins depend on the part.
Dead, it reads
- A pin near 0 Ω to ground or to the supply pin where an identical part does not read that: failed short.
- Supply present, output stuck: failed, or its load has.
- On the board:
- A pin shorted to ground on the board can be anything on that net. Lift the pin to be sure.
- Compare:
- The surest reference is the same IC on a working board, measured pin by pin.
- Watch for:
- Its protection diodes can read like junctions between pins, even like a transistor. That proves nothing either way.
A dead part still carries its marking. A short or an open says it has failed, not that it is a different part.
Did you find your part?
One code, several parts
Marking codes are not unique. In the standard code book, 6H on a SOT-23 is an NPN transistor, a varicap, an N-channel JFET, two digital transistors, a 3.6 V voltage detector: six parts from five makers. So a search shows the parts we hold under that code and under codes easily misread as it, with only the columns that tell them apart.
- NPN transistor
- Varicap
- N-channel JFET
- Digital transistor ×2
- 3.6 V voltage detector
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