chelsealuttrall
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my motorcycle project was up on a jack while working on it. I left it to buy an item and wait for it mid-project. Things weren’t buttoned up, but I didn’t think anyone would mess with it in the couple days it would take to get my item in the mail.
While I was gone today, though, my husband lowered the jack to use it for other projects. (He says it wasn’t a rough drop, but I don’t know….he’s not a “light touch” kind of guy). When he did this a giant puff of smoke went up. He sent me a short video and it was obviously coming from my charger box. The charger switch was off, and not plugged in…though the charging cord was attached, the prongs were suspended and not touching anything. The charger battery connections were attached so that once I plugged in and switched on, it would charge. I have charged without incident previously.
My question: what would cause the charger to do this? I’ve attached the investigation pics below.
My capacitors are swollen up and look like they blew up, my coil looks overheated because whatever the covering for the wires is, it looks like it melted off and piled below it in a pile of goo. Then, the thing next to the coil is blackened and looks like it was the origin of the overheat. What is that and why did it?
While I was gone today, though, my husband lowered the jack to use it for other projects. (He says it wasn’t a rough drop, but I don’t know….he’s not a “light touch” kind of guy). When he did this a giant puff of smoke went up. He sent me a short video and it was obviously coming from my charger box. The charger switch was off, and not plugged in…though the charging cord was attached, the prongs were suspended and not touching anything. The charger battery connections were attached so that once I plugged in and switched on, it would charge. I have charged without incident previously.
My question: what would cause the charger to do this? I’ve attached the investigation pics below.
My capacitors are swollen up and look like they blew up, my coil looks overheated because whatever the covering for the wires is, it looks like it melted off and piled below it in a pile of goo. Then, the thing next to the coil is blackened and looks like it was the origin of the overheat. What is that and why did it?
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