Comments on: Burst Capacitor Found In Butterfly Induction Cooker

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:21:34 +0000

Thanks for sharing.. Cheers

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By: Parasuraman S

Parasuraman S — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 06:20:01 +0000

In reply to Humberto.

Many thanks!

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By: Humberto

Humberto — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 02:32:31 +0000

In reply to Parasuraman S.

Well-done Parasuraman

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By: Parasuraman S

Parasuraman S — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 12:50:07 +0000

In reply to Mark.

Many thanks! I never keep any of the defective parts with me. I give it to the customer and insist that they take it and dispose it themselves. There are two reasons. One is we save ourselves from pile of defective components, another e-waste. Second reasons is for maintaining credibility. I do not charge anything extra for the parts. I charge only the cost of purchase plus the conveyance incurred (distributed evenly to all cases). I never add margins to the cost. So, even if a customer wants to verify, let them! It will only increase their confidence!

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 03:29:56 +0000

Hey Parasuraman,
Well done on your repair.
You must have quite a collection of Ecaps by now! 🙂
They do tend to dry out and fail, so I understand replacing them as part of maintenance.

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By: Parasuraman S

Parasuraman S — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 23:18:21 +0000

In reply to Albert van Bemmelen.

My practice as always is not only to troubleshoot the defective but also do a preventive maintenance of any device that comes to me. Replacing all the electrolytic capacitors in an old device is a part of that. Because, the E-caps are the most common trouble causing components. If I found one press-to-on switch defective, I replace the entire lot. Because from my experience, one by one that will start giving the problem. We will lose reputation with the customer as they do not understand the peculiarities of electronic devices. Moreover, I do not like any device to come back to me in the immediate future for any repair.

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By: Albert van Bemmelen

Albert van Bemmelen — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:52:43 +0000

Maybe a bad thought of me but since you gave the induction-cooker a fair testrun time anyway before giving it back to its owner, you maybe could have stopped after replacing just the burst capacitor instead of also replacing all other capacitors that probably were not causing any problem. And after that only new intermittent press-to-on button switches were needed. But I guess that you let no opportunity go to waste if you just see those old e-caps to be able to replace all of them.

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