........Gosh........
.........my generator killed its voltage regulator .....again ....so ...this time I complained to the manufacture , saying that I could return one of the faulty units , and see if they could make a fix for the , what ever bit that keeps dying ....but no luck ....what I did find out , was they only cost USD 12.00 each with USA 55.00 to post .....so I have ordered 2 of them from China....
I was paying $153.00 NZ dollars each for them here ....and some cost as much as $480.00 NZ ....some one was sure making profit out of others misery ....
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next time you buy from me, I will give you big discount if I have the items you need... ok dear ?
I could not have given you better advice than Hans. He is spot on.
One of two things usually occur either the salt/moisture corrodes wire or the leg/s of IC'c or other components causing them to become thinner thus changing the resistance and the current that it can carry...... or the salt accumulates like a bridge between contacts causing a short.
@ Cat - Thanks mate but salt laden moisture is probably only one possible cause in Virgo's situation....
@ Z - Another little known problem is a phenomenon, just as deadly to electronics are 'Tin Whiskers'....
@ armars - I remember my father used to have a 20 litre drum where he stored his arc-welding rods and he had a 40 watt light bulb fitted onto the inside of the lid and this was kept switched on 24/7.....
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