Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Battery charger damage and repair

  An old Schumacher automobile battery charger has been used to charge the system auto batteries , for several years. One day, a couple of weeks ago, the charge went pffft. When I tried to plug the unit into the wall a grinding noise was heard. I took the thing apart. The construction was surprising. There are two button diodes used as rectifiers. One had shorted. I replaced both with standard through-hole tech diodes and reassembled the unit. Functional status restored.


No comments:

Post a Comment

The cause of data gaps in CSV files

  There have been occasions when data gaps occurred in the CSV files collected daily. The problems are unique to the power file. The azimuth...