Looking for a new oscillator.

I just discovered that the SPK16.000G oscillator on one of the Arduino UNO controllers I have has been damaged. After several searches online with no success I thought I would send out an S.O.S. here at the forums.

Can anyone tell me where I can get one or more of these tiny oscillators within a few days? Many are available from China but delivery is 20 to 30 days.

Or if anyone has one to sell I would be interested.

Thanks

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http://www.dipmicro.com/store/XC7-16000

How do you know it is bad?

All of the big electronics supply places should have that. Mouser, Digi-Key, Farnell...

How did you damage the oscillator and not anything else? I would imagine that something else is broken too and I would order a new UNO from the above sources if I needed it urgently. Try the oscillator fix later when you have time.

Where abouts are you located?

It would be rather difficult to damage that crystal and more likely that the board itself has been damaged in the process, which will make repair more difficult.

You certainly cannot damage it electrically.

You really need to properly explain what you mean by "damaged". :astonished:

Thanks for the many responses.

One of my automatic gates here on the farm had stopped working due to cold weather and frozen soil heaving. I am in the process of changing the gateposts and making some modifications to the overall gate installation. While I was working on some mechanical parts I dropped a screw driver on top of the control panel where the Arduino UNO is mounted. The handle of the screwdriver bounced off the edge of the electric panel box and landed on top of the Arduino board. It hit on a glancing blow and simply pushed one end of the tiny oscillator approx. 1/4". The pin on one end is sheared off and I suspect that the pin at the other end of the oscellator may be damaged. The attached photo is not the actual damaged UNO controller. I just wanted to show the oscillator.

I have carefully inspected the entire UNO board and it seems that this is the only damage.

Yes, I plan to replace the controller with a new one but I still want to repair the original.

ChilliTronix, I'm in rural Indiana, USA.

PlayStationFarm:
Yes, I plan to replace the controller with a new one but I still want to repair the original.

Of course!

Clearly a big screwdriver. The rule here as always is that the better you describe the actual problem and situation the more sense the answers will make.

You will need a solder sucker.

The parts LarryD cited will do just fine then.

The handle of the screwdriver bounced off the edge of the electric panel box and landed on top of the Arduino board. It hit on a glancing blow and simply pushed one end of the tiny oscillator approx. 1/4".

Amazing!
SH*T happens.

Its a quartz crystal, not an oscillator, I believe - for the ATmega16U2 that talks to the
USB port. Any standard crystal of the right frequency is likely to work, check the ATmega16U2
datasheet for definitive requirements.

It is a 16MHz quartz crystal, which allows the atmega16u2 to run at that speed, you can see it on this schematic :
uno schematic

and in addition to LarryD's links, here is one more :
crystal
(from my own experience, very quick delivery)

I ordered some supplies from SparkFun and added a new oscillator to my order. The parts should arrive in a few days.

Here is my UNO with the oscillator pushed off to the side. Very strange accident. And the screw driver was not very big either.

Presumably those tracks are not damaged, only had the solder mask scraped.

Impressive shot with the screwdriver. Bet you couldn't have done that if you had tried!
Time for an enclosure.

PlayStationFarm:
I ordered some supplies from SparkFun and added a new oscillator to my order. The parts should arrive in a few days.

Here is my UNO with the oscillator pushed off to the side. Very strange accident. And the screw driver was not very big either.

Wow. Be glad you didn't whack the 16U2 or the resonator for the 328P.

You're probably OK... the board looks OK from what I can see in your picture. When you remove the old crystal and clean out the holes, be VERY careful not to overheat the traces or damage the plate-throughs. I've been working in electronics for over 40 years and I still need to tell myself to be extra careful with Arduino boards and their flimsy PC boards (and I've wrecked more that a few anyway).

Since that crystal only feeds the USB chip, the UNO should continue working fine without it. It's only uploading of new sketches or Serial.printing to the usb port that should be disabled.

If you were to remove the crystal from the board (by carefully heating the remaining leg and pulling) I think you should be able to bodge it for now. Soldering on a short patch lead to the stub (and remaining leg) should allow you to connect it back to the board.