I’ve been watching a lot of EEVBlog teardown and repair videos lately. Great stuff. Last night our portable AC was being a bit dodgy and today it’s just dead to the world. After an hour of finding all the screws I finally got into the meat and potatoes. Okay, I got to sheet metal covering the power supply, so more of the asparagus. But close.
I lever of the sheet metal and I’m digging into the power supply. Its unplugged of course, but I’m just doing a visual inspection. I look at the caps, the transformers, etc, and everything looks… ash. There are ash flakes. Either a wire burnt or the relay it was attached to burnt, taking the wire with it.
Sanyou SLI-S-112DM. Well that’s a part I could get from China in a month…
Whole board it is then.