Photo here shows the fuse that is broken in my battery charger. I dropped the charger and it quit working so it looks like this is the problem. Does a fuse like this come out of the end caps that are soldered to the PCB or is the fuse itself part of the two legs soldered to the PCB? It does not seem to be a fuse I can dislodge from the caps.
Second question........Is this fuse something that is easy to find a replacement for? Any ideas for where I might start looking for one on line?
Photo here shows the fuse that is broken in my battery charger. I dropped the charger and it quit working so it looks like this is the problem. Does a fuse like this come out of the end caps that are soldered to the PCB or is the fuse itself part of the two legs soldered to the PCB? It does not seem to be a fuse I can dislodge from the caps.
Second question........Is this fuse something that is easy to find a replacement for? Any ideas for where I might start looking for one on line?
Hey Wayne? What country are you from? The reason I ask is that Chinese battery chargers seem to come with 250v fuses instead of 125v fuses that would work in the USA.
That fuse that is broken is easy to find. eBay or a lot of other places. Replacing it depends on your soldering abilities. Look at the end-caps of the fuse to see what the real values of it were and replace it with an applicable fuse.
Step 1 is un-soldering the fuse holders from the underside of the pcb.
Step 2 try to un-solder the broken fuse parts from the holder caps. If you can great, save the caps for the new fuse, if not don't worry about it.
Step 3 using an applicable fuse, re-solder it into the fuse caps and then re-solder the end cap leads into the pcb....or
If you can not save the caps from the old fuse, cut the leads off a resistor (make sure the leads are the same size of the original leads)
quickly solder them to the ends of the fuse and then solder the leads to the pcb.
all the fuses have 250V printed on them. the trick is to find one the same length so you can solder to the legs. i think the one in the picture is 5x20mm.
Looks like you also popped a cap. A couple of things.....
Also, please start a new thread with the specific info about your charger. Manufacture and model would help a lot. The pictures are great, the better to help us help you with.
But it looks like you need to replace that capacitor for sure.
Wow I just saw the white goo coming out of capacitor. So I can just detach both the fuse and capacitor from bottom of board via solder and put new replacements in?
Wow I just saw the white goo coming out of capacitor. So I can just detach both the fuse and capacitor from bottom of board via solder and put new replacements in?
