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teebee111

Aug 30, 2020
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Automotive smoke machine to detect leaks runs on a 12 V system one of the techs used battery charger to run it which burnt it up causing the red light to flash which according to the manufacture is an open circuit, I opened up the system checked the resistance on the existing wire found it was burnt replaced the wire with Nichrome 60 wire, 20 AWG, 0.6592 Ohms/ft, I used 4 ft. at about 2.1k but the red light consistently flashes, checked the diodes, caps, fets and resistors the only thing I did not check was the OP777 op amp and the PIC12F675 Flash 8-Pin 1kb 20MHz Microcontroller . If I turn on the switch and then touch the wire it heats up fine but if the wire is connected and then turn it on, it fails. With 12v supply I get 4.4v at P1, and after turning it on I get 12V. Any help would be appreciated. Also can’t find much info on Q2 (1AL markings)


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Bluejets

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Place your images here....link does not work (at least for me).
Many will not follow links to strange dodgy sites......
 

teebee111

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Bluejets

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Not much one can do with an apparent error signal from the uC especially without any circuit details and one could be almost 100% certain that none would be available.
Looks like a bin job if the obvious control devices are intact.
Don't know how you managed to check the electros in place but there ya go.
 

teebee111

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No i removed them from the board here is a link to the data
smoke-data-pic.jpg
 
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