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Voltage converter circuit - Bosch / Siemens washing machine
I need your help repairing the voltage conversion circuit of the Bosch
WFL2061BY washing machine. I have the following questions: 1) No operating lights etc. are on. Visual inspection shows a damaged resistor (first two bands brown and black, next band difficult to tell - possibly brown, gold or even yellow). As far as I can tell no fuse is fitted - is this normal? A fuse seems to be essential to protect against possible overcurrent conditions. 2) The damaged resistor is directly connected to the mains in series with a transformer (which I suspect is used to derive the low voltage for driving the relays). I have experimented with a 100R resistor (1/4 Watt) connected to 220V, but it is immediately burned out. Four (1/4 Watt) resistors of 10k in parallel also got hot in a few seconds. My initial guess would be that the damaged resistor provides current limiting? 3) If the damaged resistor provides current limiting, why is it placed on the high voltage (220V) side? 4) A number of diodes (likely 1N4001) also seems to be connected to the high voltage side, before the transformer. If they form a half- wave or full-wave rectifier, why do they connect the diodes before the transformer (on the high voltage side)? 5) It is possible that some other components also got damaged. From visual inspection I cannot confirm damage to other components. In circuit measurements of the diodes show about 4.5k in one direction and infinity in the other. An 8 pin IC TP209P is found close to the (small) transformer. The voltage regulator is a BT916 (or BTB16 - difficult to tell from visual inspection). Any suggestions on how to proceed? Best regards, Theo van der Merwe |
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