beachycove
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I just went out and bought a multimeter to try to diagnose the problem with a failed SE/30 MacCon ethernet card. The multimeter tells me that two of the SMD components on the card are bad. Everything else on the card seems good.
The components in question are at the top left, where the ribbon connects, at C17 and C20, and are both marked/ labelled A5.
Naturally, I now want to source the components and replace them, but having been trained in the Humanities and being new to this kind of thing, have a dumb question about the meaning of that label: Am I looking for a couple of 5A SMD fuses, A5 diodes, transistors or something else?
The components in question are at the top left, where the ribbon connects, at C17 and C20, and are both marked/ labelled A5.
Naturally, I now want to source the components and replace them, but having been trained in the Humanities and being new to this kind of thing, have a dumb question about the meaning of that label: Am I looking for a couple of 5A SMD fuses, A5 diodes, transistors or something else?