SMD code 3906
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.
3906 on a chip resistor
390 MΩ
390 MΩ resistor, 1%
390 followed by 6 zeros. Four digits is normally the 1% series.
Check it with a meter
Lift one end and measure across it. A good one reads 390 MΩ within 1%. Measuring it in circuit reads the parallel combination of everything around it, which is almost always lower, never higher: well above 390 MΩ on the board is a fault. Open, or well above 390 MΩ, means it has failed: burnt, cracked or corroded. That does not change what to fit: the marking still says 390 MΩ. 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 (SOT-23, SOT-23-5, SOT-223), 3906 is a part code instead. Those parts are listed below.
The only part printed 3906 in our tables
PZT3906
- What it is
- PNP transistor
- Maker
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- Package
- SOT-223
- Pins
- Not recorded
- Details
- PNP transistor, 40 V, 0.2 A
- Source
- Published code list
Is it dead?
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.
Was it this one?
Codes that begin with 3906
For a marking with its end worn or burnt off. Each code has a page of its own.
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