Fuses do not blow for no reason, so be careful shove a bulb in series with
it when you put it on!
Brian

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On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:33:09 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
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On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:47:16 +0100, T i m wrote:

Ok, I wouldn't have expected them to strip what I did down but they
obviously hadn't even stuck a grease gun on the front suspension?

Seems odd that there is no grease at all in the suspension not even a
smear here or there from initial manufacture.

Indeed.

I'd try an find a
sevice manual to see if that model/year is supposed to be greased or
if they switched to sealed bearings but left the nipple.

I've stripped and clean both sides now and they are just plain bushes
Dave.

Either that
and it's been stripped before and who ever did that didn't finish the
job properly.

https://ibb.co/S5y9k0Y
https://ibb.co/0s8PrP4
https://ibb.co/mvKgY9F

A possibility ... still, not good workmanship eh. ;-(

I also had to know the nsr wheel off from across the width of the
buggy with a length of timber and a hammer as it was seized on. It
looks like the osr had also been seized on but knocked off by a rock
or directly by a steel hammer(judging by the damage done to the inside
of the rim). ;-(

Don't know how "user friendly" Regatta are. As this is a mobilty
scooter I wouldn't be surised if they refuse to talk to you and
inisist that you take it to one of their "certified service depots".

Yup, been there before with TGA.

I have already got the (Curtis) battery charger as that had stopped
working. Upon inspection I found the main 6.3A mains input fuse has
blown and there was the signs of a bit of a flashover near one of the
main SMPSU IC's.

https://ibb.co/mRYmM8w

Looks like the magic smoke got out from pins 5 & 6 of that chip and
condensed on the board towards D14. I'd expect something else to have
gone phut first to then take out that chip.

Whilst you may well be right, couldn't have been water on the board
(that started it)?

Chopper transistors,
mains side smoothing capacitors? Remember that a mains SMPSU has some
nasty voltages flying about inside it.

Yeah, thanks for the warning. If it's not the fuse, that IC or
anything 'obvious' (if there is such a thing around SMPSU's), I'll go
for another solution.

Cheers, T i m