posted on Oct, 8 2007 @ 08:53 AM
Well, it's definitely not a 40G Fujitsu fiber optic link.
I have serious doubts about it being any sort of transmitter, either.
I wish I had seen the thread before you bashed it apart.
Is the case still intact?
If you had a camera with a macro focus that could have gotten closer, it would have helped. Most small cameras won't, though.
I can't tell from the pic what it is at that distance and blur. My first impression was that it was a tantalum capacitor, but you probably wouldn't
need to sink one into the board like that. It was most likely a resonator or crystal for the microcontroller. Maybe an inductor but I don't think
you'd need one that size in a remote.
If you still have any readable bits of the case, put up all the text you see on it.
What sort of remote was it? Do you have the part number?
Oh, and around the parts, you will see reference designators for them. Things like C1, R120, Y1 etc. Each part should have one that's pretty clearly
for that part. By the hole, where the part was connected, you will most likely see a fairly unambiguous designator for the part. If they use standard
naming conventions, that may tell me what it was.
edit: tantalum capacitors often look like this:
[edit on 8-10-2007 by Tom Bedlam]