Rod Dumbreck
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I am well chuffed with todays effort in the workshop.Someone kindly gave me this electric fence unit about ten years ago and its done sterling service, but a couple of weeks ago it didn't respond to having a fresh battery.
Having undone all the screws possible, tested the capacitor and bought a new one, which made no difference, I had a prod about with the tester and found a resistor on the board that was open circuit. Emailed a picture to brother who knows about these things, he said 100 ohm, got ten for 50p, and guess what. Its effin workin! Not the smartest soldering, and breach of thread rules, it was a brand new resistor.
Having undone all the screws possible, tested the capacitor and bought a new one, which made no difference, I had a prod about with the tester and found a resistor on the board that was open circuit. Emailed a picture to brother who knows about these things, he said 100 ohm, got ten for 50p, and guess what. Its effin workin! Not the smartest soldering, and breach of thread rules, it was a brand new resistor.