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Root cause insight into the common BMW blower motor resistorfailures
Bimmer Owner > wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:47:31 -0400, Scott Dorsey wrote: > >> I don't see why it is so hard to unpot one of these things and repair them >> directly, especially if it's a semiconductor failure. >> Put a bigger transistor in there. > >Here are pictures from the last half dozen who tried that approach: > http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470740.jpg > http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470742.jpg > http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470745.jpg > http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470747.jpg > http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470748.jpg > http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/12470750.jpg These are kind of sloppy jobs. But it's clear there are two TO-3 devices there which have been removed in all of those photos. >One problem with "put a bigger xtor" is that nobody on this planet >has produced a decent circuit diagram of the FSU. Well, has anyone got docs on that mystery IC there? It's from Elmos Semiconductor, but it's not a standard Elmos part number on it, so it's almost certainly a custom, since it doesn't look like anything in their standard book. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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