Hello electronics gurus. I have approx 20 power supplies(rectifiers) that the power boards are frying and won't start up see pics. They are blowing 4-10ohm resistors, a diode, The IC (L4981AD),and between 1&4 Mosfets. I cant find where or why they are doing it. HELP!!!
The fets go on the large heatsink, the resistors are near the relay by the big caps, diode is basically in the center of the board
They are dc power supplies/rectifiers. Used for electroplating. Input voltage is 220VAC/1Ph/60Hz. It comes into another board with a few caps and inductors and splits to this board. One side goes to the single screw terminal on the far side. the other line splits into 2 wires and goes to power switch, then to the 2 spade terminals.
I was going to draw on the pic, but This is a new laptop and I havent installed all my stuff yet. I'll snap a pic of the whole unit on monday (off tomorrow yippee!)
OK, I did not notice the spade terminals to start with.
It appears they both go to bridge rectifiers; the one near the relay looks to be for the main output stage power, and the one along the edge possibly for control circuit power??
Please post more photos from different angles, so all the components are identifiable - and some of the other board??
The other board may have a "soft start" resistor on it to pre-charge the main capacitors before the relay pulls in and connects direct power. If so, that resistor is a possible culprit.
If the input power is cycled too frequently, those can easily be cooked in some PSU designs.