steve the grease
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As afavour to someone I have been railroaded into having a look at at someones Butters AMT1800 which is dead to the world apart from : The fan is going round and the overheating light is on.
As the thing is freezing cold , I reckon the thermal trip in the transformer has got to be the place to start looking. There are lots of big wires going into the transformer and then 2 little ones, that might be the place to look, with my meter on the 2 little wires it's showing open circuit, odd. I tried substituting the probably bust thermal trip with a wire link between the 2 little wires and , hooray the machine has woken up. Ok, so now I want to replace the blown thermal trip with an auto resetting thermal fuse stuck to the outside on the iron core of the transformer, which should be an adequate repair.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RH-Tf-95...l-Fuse-/272901906122?var=&hash=item3f8a389eca
So the question is ........... what temperature fuse should I go for, I was thinking something a little over 100^ maybe 115^ . Opinions anybody. Oh, and thanks in advance.
As the thing is freezing cold , I reckon the thermal trip in the transformer has got to be the place to start looking. There are lots of big wires going into the transformer and then 2 little ones, that might be the place to look, with my meter on the 2 little wires it's showing open circuit, odd. I tried substituting the probably bust thermal trip with a wire link between the 2 little wires and , hooray the machine has woken up. Ok, so now I want to replace the blown thermal trip with an auto resetting thermal fuse stuck to the outside on the iron core of the transformer, which should be an adequate repair.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RH-Tf-95...l-Fuse-/272901906122?var=&hash=item3f8a389eca
So the question is ........... what temperature fuse should I go for, I was thinking something a little over 100^ maybe 115^ . Opinions anybody. Oh, and thanks in advance.