Hey guys I’m planning on soldering new wires but I’m not too sure what this piece is. Can someone help me out here?

 

That I think it is an inductor. But w/o seeing a side view difficult to be certain.


Regards, Dana.

 

Can you read the number on the chip your red circle obscures?

 

Can you read the number on the chip your red circle obscures?

Here you go.

 

We cannot read any number on the component. Do YOU see one?

If you can't find a number on that part, can you make out the number printed on the 5 pin IC next to it?

 

We cannot read any number on the component. Do YOU see one?

If you can't find a number on that part, can you make out the number printed on the 5 pin IC next to it?

It's 3AMC or 34MC, I can't find it.

 

AliExpress has a match for 3AMC. It refers to it as a SOT23-5. Searching on that, it’s described as s LDO Voltage Regulator, on the Mouser site.

 

AliExpress has a match for 3AMC. It refers to it as a SOT23-5. Searching on that, it’s described as s LDO Voltage Regulator, on the Mouser site.

LDO makes sense. is that big lump there a heat sink for a large LED? The photograph is hard to understand.

 

AliExpress has a match for 3AMC. It refers to it as a SOT23-5. Searching on that, it’s described as s LDO Voltage Regulator, on the Mouser site.

I’m sorry I just don’t understand why I’m looking at that piece of the one I’m trying to find is the one with the wrapped coil?

 

I’m sorry I just don’t understand why I’m looking at that piece of the one I’m trying to find is the one with the wrapped coil?

I’m just trying to figure out what the piece I circled is?

 

I’m sorry I just don’t understand why I’m looking at that piece of the one I’m trying to find is the one with the wrapped coil?

Because of your response in post #4

 

So it is an inductor. If you have an ohmmeter you should read, and this is a guess,
somewhere between 10 and 1K ohms, but you would have to unsolder it to make
sure if it was open some other part of the circuit was what you were reading.

Guess here is circuit is a buck or boost regulator, and that is the key component
in it.

Regards, Dana.

 

Maybe I'm just seeing things but it looks a little like a button switch to me. Could the "coil" just be a spring, part of a pushbutton?

 

Maybe I'm just seeing things but it looks a little like a button switch to me. Could the "coil" just be a spring, part of a pushbutton?

Yep! Could just be a push button. Maybe if the TS could push it and tell us what happens.

 

Can you take a pic of the side view of the part ?

Regards, Dana.

 

Can you take a pic of the side view of the part ?

Regards, Dana.

I think I found what it is can you confirm?

 

It looks like it was a 3.3uH inductor.
And the regulator was one of these:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Fre...ent-drive-original-authentic/32522841933.html

 

Yup, definitely not a switch and clearly an inductor.

 

Was an inductor.

 

Was an inductor.

It’s an inductor kit now.