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Br1078lum
Tinkerer
Username: Br1078lum
Post Number: 171
Registered: 11-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 09:31 am: | 
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I was cleaning up the battery mess on this winder, and was surprised it came back to life with a fresh set of AA's. Later on though, it would only work intermittantly, and now seems totally dead. I've got 6.45v at the stack, and beyond the power switch, but only 0.05-0.2v past the manual operation micro switch. Tried jumping out the micro switch, but no luck.
Is there a capacitor in the motor housing that would cause this? Anyone have a breakdown on the winder?
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John_shriver
Tinkerer
Username: John_shriver
Post Number: 68
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 02:51 pm: |
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No, there's no capacitor in there, it's a DC motor. The red button on the bottom is not the manual operation switch, it's the reset button for the circuit breaker. The circuit breaker is by far the flakiest and most unreliable part of the winder. But you'll burn out the motor if the switch in the camera doesn't stop the winder when it's done winding, so you need that circuit breaker.
The Auto Winder is not built to Topcon's normal standards of "indestructible." |
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