• DIHL peltier cooler cabinet, WF 218D

    From N_Cook@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 16 16:59:31 2023
    2 peltier units in one cabinet.
    The lower unit lost thermostat control and on full whack continuously.
    I disconected that one and run on the top unit only, but with display
    panel and lower unit unpowered the top unit ran at half cock
    continuously which was ok for the intended use as a non-freezer box low
    power fridge.
    Until , as no protection from dripping condensate , condensate drip from
    the skyved heatsink physically corroded a pin of a small 78L08 100mA
    volt reg., diode checking the whole board cold, main active devices
    looked reasonable, fuses and low ohm Rs ok.
    I had thought if that top control unit failed at any time I could swap
    it for the bottom. Both are marked fanny.com.cn PCB100729K1, MP 011
    Replaced the VR and no fan kick, green LED flashes on then off and red
    LED on . I swapped control units and the identical green and red LED
    function and no fan kick also.
    No idea what to expect putting a DVM on both isolated peltier units,
    top one on resistance each way was 12 ohm and -1 ohm presumably from the dissimilar metals in series , the lower one 13ohm and -4 ohm which as
    far as it goes ,are presumably ok.
    Before checking out the output side of the PS active devices AZ494AP and
    LM358P , conventional DIP devices, something silly I've overlooked?
    I will try the lower unit in isolation tomorrow.

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