Please help. I accidentally cut with scissors a component @ APM (look picture).
whether the component is important?
Can I still operate my APM? How I fix it?
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Please help. I accidentally cut with scissors a component @ APM (look picture).
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It looks to be a cap... find on on digikey or jamaco for cheap and simply replace... the easiest thing to do is, to hold it with tweezers or a air suction device and place it over the Leeds of the board and re-solder it... just lightly touch each end until the solder melts and remove heat and you should be golden...
FYI
in this picture above, its kind of a surprise that you haven't had any other problems, seeing there a lot of cold solder joints and one almost appears to be bridged ( bottom row, 6th from the left)...
And a curious question as to how did you CUT it with scissors?
Fix it according to the diagram below :)
And also try fix up some of your solder joints, they look a bit dodgy. :)
Specifically the ones in the bottom right corner of your board picture. Make sure the solder flows from the pins onto the board.
Look ArduPilotMegaShield_F_v141_board.pdf scheme and you will see that it is a SMD capacitor of 2.2uf. Should not be hard to find.
https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692311365?prof... id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">I'm no electronics expert but I believe that if its a SMD ceramic capacitor, it can be replaced by a ceramic capacitor of 2.2uf no SMD.
Edson
I dont know enough to help just to say dont feel bad it looks like something i would do