Help!!! Chip shortedout

[ASLexFly]

Hi all,

I need help, the board of my plotter (mutoh rockhopper II) as a micro-chip brokend and i cant read the letters on it to have it replaced. A new board cost me 2.500€ and i dont whant to depart of that money, i have a frind that can fix the board but he needs to know the letters on that chip.
Can anyone help me?
I post some picture of the board and the broken chip. If anyone have one like it, please tell me the letters and numbers on the chip.

 

[genericname]

Well, it's a transistor, that much I can tell you. I can't read the number on it at all though, so you may have to do some investigating yourself. See if there are any other identical transistors on the board, and it's a safe bet that you can replace it with the same kind.

Do note though, that transistors are kind of like capacitors, in that their breaking can just be the symptom of another problem. Did this one get damaged due to getting hit, or did it explode during operation? If it blew up, then you'd better buy a whack of them, so you can keep replacing them until you've tracked down the real issue. Unless your friend is going to meter the whole thing of course, checking everything on the board.

 

[ASLexFly]

the transistor broke during the assembly of the board on the machine. I have search on the board for another transistor like that, but they all have diferent fuctions and the output of power are diferent in all of them. The only way to know is by checking the numbers on it, thats why i need help, i cant find another machine like it in my area.
If anyone as another exacly like it, i whould realy apreciate if you could send me the nunbers on that transistor.
I already contacted suppliers and the mutoh agent in my country, and they all say that they will check and contact me, so far none of them tould me anything.

 

[genericname]

I can't help you with this one, but you may be more likely to get responses if you introduce yourself as a new member in the welcome section of the forum first.

This can be a great bunch, but there are certain levels of etiquette that can garner you plenty of respect.