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SMD code 91C

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.

91C on a chip resistor

86.6 kΩ

86.6 kΩ resistor, 1%

EIA-96 precision code: 91 selects 8.66 from the E96 series and C multiplies by 10000. These are 1% parts.

Check it with a meter

Lift one end and measure across it. A good one reads 86.6 kΩ within 1%. Measuring it in circuit reads the parallel combination of everything around it, which is almost always lower, never higher: well above 86.6 kΩ on the board is a fault. Open, or well above 86.6 kΩ, means it has failed: burnt, cracked or corroded. That does not change what to fit: the marking still says 86.6 kΩ. 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 (SMA, SMC), 91C is a part code instead. Those parts are listed below.

The only part printed 91C in our tables

1.5SMC91CA

What it is
TVS diode
Maker
Vishay
Package
SMC
Pins
2
Details
1500 W TVS diode, bidirectional
Source
From the manufacturer's datasheet

Is it dead?

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.

Codes that begin with 91C

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

Open this in the search to correct a character or try another package.