ECN Electrical Forum - Discussion Forums for Electricians, Inspectors and Related Professionals
ECN Shout Chat
ShoutChat
Recent Posts
Increasing demand factors in residential
by tortuga - 03/28/24 05:57 PM
Portable generator question
by Steve Miller - 03/19/24 08:50 PM
Do we need grounding?
by NORCAL - 03/19/24 05:11 PM
240V only in a home and NEC?
by dsk - 03/19/24 06:33 AM
Cordless Tools: The Obvious Question
by renosteinke - 03/14/24 08:05 PM
New in the Gallery:
This is a new one
This is a new one
by timmp, September 24
Few pics I found
Few pics I found
by timmp, August 15
Who's Online Now
1 members (CoolWill), 23 guests, and 16 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate Thread
#199756 03/07/11 11:29 AM
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3
B
Bee Offline OP
New Member
Hi-Thanks for having me on. Hoping someone could answer a question on a 6/2 ampcar battery charger that I'm trying to bring back to life.There are three wires from the secondary side of the transformer the two outside (red)wires go to diodes (one for each wire)that are attched to a common bar(heat sink)which is attched to the positive battery clip. The other wire (black) goes to the negative battery clip. My question is, should the two diodes be attached with their cathodes to the bar? Thanks

Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 402
J
Member
What you have is a center tap full wave rectifier. The cathode is the positive and should be connected to the bar.

Last edited by jdevlin; 03/07/11 11:51 AM.
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3
B
Bee Offline OP
New Member
I thought that was right but was alittle confused since there are two wires going to the bar each with a diode.Transformer is also burnt up so can't check voltage on the wires.Thanks for the help.

Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,273
T
Member
If the transformer is burnt -- it's dead.

Stop.

Buy another device.


Tesla
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 827
Likes: 1
J
Member
If the TX is burnt up, is one of your diodes shorted? The TX is the most expensive part but MPJA.com is in Fl. and has some reasonably priced ones. I just tore into an annunciator power supply that was clearing 7A slo-blos on Friday. It was just a full wave center tap, unfiltered supply as you described but with 1N2129A 100V, 60A stud mount rectifiers. One was shorted. The supply seems like overkill for the size of the annunciator.
Joe

Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,923
Likes: 32
G
Member
I would not spend a lot of money trying to fix a primitive
battery charger. You can usually find a fairly nice one in a garage sale for a few bucks. The transformer will usually be the most expensive part in one.


Greg Fretwell
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 3
B
Bee Offline OP
New Member
I replaced the stud mount diodes with bigger 25amp ones that wasn't too exspensive.I know the smart thing to do would be to trash the charger and buy a new one but at the moment I'm semi retired(can't find work ha-ha)and thought I'd try fixing this.If I can find suitable transformer reasonable I'll be ok with that.I'll try the MPJA site.Thanks.


Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5