Homemaker Electric Throw Rug Repair
Just short repair article. I recently had trouble with a heated throw rug 
I would be sitting watching the Tv setup to make a cuppa or let the cat in and come back. The throw rug had reset.
Anyway I dropped the controller on the floor and noticed it had reset.
This got me thinking It may be dry joints. So I unscrewed, 4 torx no 10’s and it was apart.
Looked over the circuit board and noticed a cap had no solder on it and the lead was too short (not poking out of the hole).
close up of missing solder
So I resoldered the offending Capacitor and an electrolytic as well.
I then put it all back together and did a drop test and it all good.
I wonder how this got through the QC department as the soldering looks like it was done by hand except the smd components.
This article was contributed by Lee Davey from Hobart Tasmania Australia. He has been doing repairs on electronics and PC’s for around 30 years.
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Parasuraman
August 10, 2017 at 7:28 pm
I don't even know what this device is!
david
October 8, 2022 at 6:26 pm
its an electric blanket to keep people warm during winter
Albert
August 10, 2017 at 9:35 pm
Fast and easy done repair. Never heard about a Electric Throw Rug before though (Likely because English is not my native language being Dutch). Just looked it up and saw that it is a heated blanket we at a cold wintertime put in our beds to keep warm. I always wondered how they are safe without getting electrocuted since the heater wires are woven directly into the textile fibre. And there is no safety transformer last time I checked. Once my blanket almost caught fire because there was a overheated black spot visible from a bad connected heater wire. And it is even stranger that the blankets are also washable. Thanks for the article.
Robert Calk
August 11, 2017 at 1:47 am
I'm hot natured and have never used a heated blanket myself.
Robert Calk
August 11, 2017 at 1:48 am
Good job, Lee. What is a "cuppa"?
Charles
August 11, 2017 at 2:58 am
Brilliant repair well done
Henry
August 11, 2017 at 7:57 am
Throw Rug and Cuppa are just good old Australian colloquials.
Easily recognised in the land Down Under but may be a bit puzzling to others.
And Cuppa simply means Cup of coffee or tea.
Yogesh Panchal
August 11, 2017 at 10:34 pm
well visual inspection Mr.Lee
Tito
August 13, 2017 at 10:39 pm
Well done for the good job sir
Humberto
August 16, 2017 at 1:54 am
Well done. Congratulations
Bijaya R Baidya
June 6, 2022 at 10:32 am
Do you know what that big 20 pin IC marked U1 is? Its face is blank! Thanks
John
June 29, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Well done. You wouldn't happen to know the values of R7 & R14, or have a larger/higher-resolution image showing the backside of the PCB ?
G Martin
July 24, 2024 at 7:21 pm
R7 = 9530
R14 = 19K
G Martin
July 24, 2024 at 7:22 pm
Correction R14 = 10K