

Long story short, I ended up removing a component when I was attempting to clean up some excess solder that accidentally fell on top of two components that glued them together. The tiny component got lost and i do not know where it went.
Can someone help with identifying what kind of component goes in the red circle⭕️? It looks exactly like the one above the red circle⭕️. Is it even worth the try?
by StarburstStream11
3 Comments
That’s a ceramic capacitor most likely, if you have testing leads fine enough to test the pads you can check if one of them leads to ground. if so then it’s probably just a filter cap and more than likely won’t be impactful.
It’s a surface mount resistor.
You’d have to pull the one above to measure the ~ or find one not covered in apoxy to read the writing.
It’s the soft start capacitor for the MP3431, the value is not too important, something like 10nF will do, it’ll even work without it,