NOCO - you suck.

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 10/22/2019 at 18:43 • Filed to: None

1

9

Pulled apart my NOCO genius 3500 charger last night. It died a month or so ago and I finally found the stupid tri-bit that was required to get in. protip: if there are tri-tip screws on a product it means they don’t want you in there to see their work.

Looks like a cap melted down and took some other components with it. So much for protection. Granted I’m not at all surprised, AvE warned me of the crustiness.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > HammerheadFistpunch 10/22/2019 at 19:03

5

I recently found out about AvE. I like AvE.

RutRut > HammerheadFistpunch 10/22/2019 at 19:05

2

we pot all of our electronics because we don’t want people to see in it, but that’s about components not quality. 

vicali > HammerheadFistpunch 10/22/2019 at 19:09

0

Ha, that AvE guy is gold..

MrDakka > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 10/22/2019 at 19:11

2

AvE is the weird Canadian uncle we never knew we had

VincentMalamute-Kim > HammerheadFistpunch 10/22/2019 at 19:18

0

You’ve a burn mark around the clear coated wire under the edge of the heatsink. I don’t see any burnt capacitors in your photo. Comparing yours to AvE’s sample, there isn’t a capacitor in that location. Something happened but a capacitor doesn’t seem to have died.

Comments for this video are strange - saying AvE is wrong (not uncommon but usually engineers are correcting him and these comments are more derogatory) and comments alluding to NOCO legal department activities?

vicali > vicali 10/22/2019 at 19:20

0

I thinks he’s local to me as well..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUZk76_h7oA

diplodicus forgot his password > VincentMalamute-Kim 10/22/2019 at 19:42

0

Look at ec1

VincentMalamute-Kim > VincentMalamute-Kim 10/22/2019 at 20:27

0

oh - the largest capacitor. That’s the power supply filter cap.  I don’t understand why that failure would affect components on the other side of the transformer. I have mild elect knowledge - edumacate me if you know.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > HammerheadFistpunch 10/22/2019 at 22:22

1

This what you need

It's a blue smoke refill kit!