Christmas ornament

[Krustycrab]

Hi All,

This might be completely the wrong place for this, I'm sorry if it's off topic but could anyone advise on this.

Basically, we have a small Christmas ornament that has lots of little colour lights on it, it's only 6inch by 6inch in size.

It had a variable power adaptor that was set at 3 volts and it's worked a charm every year for the last few years but it's been powered on today at 9 volts and the lights went dimmer and dimmer until the went out completely after a couple of hours or so.

I opened it up and it smelt of burning and I think the issue is in the picture, could anyone tell me what it is and if that is likely to be the issue, if so I could potentially get one and solder it in. It's tiny, like 4mm in length.

I could just buy another but the kids love it and there's nothing else I can find the same in the shops

Any help is very much appreciated

 

[Pigeon85]

Its a resistor but no idea which one you would need.
You use the coloured rings to make a calculation.

 

[Krustycrab]

Thank you for the reply, I figured it was probably a resistor.

It's in 3 parts and one part still works, I could maybe take that apart and use a multimeter to find out the resistor type.

Thanks again

 

[333rocky333]

Post a pic of the rest of the circuit, its likely if we can work out what the part is doing in the circuit, then can likely work out what you need

 

[flyingsparks]

What are the colours on the resistor? In order with gold or silver on the right? I will tell you the value, I think maplin sell individual components.

 

[HERTS P&D]

As above, take it to Maplins and they can match it up.

Andy

 

[endecotp]

It looks ro me as if the coloured bands have burned off.
Checking what's inside the other parts is a good plan.