Thomas Nagy's faulty bike charger.
Added 2020-04-24 23:12:08 +0000 UTCFellow YouTuber Thomas Nagy (an electrician working in London) sent me the charger he uses to keep his motorbike battery topped up.
He discovered the charger had died and the battery had run flat.
Let's take a look and see what went wrong.
Comments
Another bored, that’s another bored, to of bitten the dust!
2020-04-28 08:02:59 +0000 UTCMagic smoke escaping is the No 1 cause of failures.
Chris Crowther
2020-04-26 18:51:44 +0000 UTCIt does, and I thought it was - but it's the moulding seam of the case and still tests as a diode.
Big Clive
2020-04-25 13:17:23 +0000 UTC-and no it doesn't speak well of our techs. Nor do I for the most part. :\
Michael Thompson
2020-04-25 09:58:40 +0000 UTCThis is like a snapshot of my day at work, except that shorted resistor would be the work of one of our techs and I'd be pointing out that stuff to show then why there was a warranty against them. As you can imagine I'm a popular guy.
Michael Thompson
2020-04-25 09:57:23 +0000 UTCNice! I like how we get to see why it failed, skidmarks and all. So many times something has failed with no idea why.
Nani Isobel
2020-04-25 03:53:07 +0000 UTCMedlife Crisis mentions the conspiracy theorists wanting to UV-irradiate their insides. For some reason I thought of BigClive :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz2gyhto-iI
Moz in Oz
2020-04-25 01:29:39 +0000 UTCI feel like we need a reverse engineering of the whole unit. That being said I do love these fault finding videos
2020-04-25 00:49:24 +0000 UTCIn one of the photos, It looks a lot like D6 is split lengthwise too.
Scott Miller
2020-04-25 00:14:02 +0000 UTCReference to logos pushing your button.. At least with you the button won't be referenced to mains and probably has a debounce circuit ;)
Chloe Cresswell
2020-04-24 23:25:37 +0000 UTC
