Repairing blown TRIAC on the EB8

[rwb500]

this is awesome! thank you.

 

[swclown]

Very detailed. Nice job. I'm wondering how this went bad in the first place? And it appears that someone else is about to do this. Is this a common occurrence?

 

[doctorwhoreefer]

Ya nice writeup, got myself an apex few weeks back and wondering about the circumstances surrounding yours? It looks pretty old from the pics?

Nice job though, thank you!

 

[ptreef]

They seem to be a decent amount go bad. Often it's overloading them too. Only designed for 5A.
I plugged a shop vac in one and it fried it..not realizing it pulled like 11A. I have 3 eb 8 and have a total of 2 bad outlets. One my fault other not sure. One that went bad randomly was about 1.5 yr old. Rest are 4 yrs old and no issues.

 

[Dxpert]

Amazing writeup. Thanks for sharing I'm sure I will use this at some point.

 

[sleepydoc]

I think problems with the Triacs/SSRs were why Neptune went with relays for the EB832


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[mprygh]

Nice writeup!!
I have a bad port also.
Was thinking of just getting an EB4, but may poke around with it instead.

 

[laverda]

I have 2 bad EB8s. I hopefuly this will fix one, but the second one has other issues I think.

 

[homer1475]

I have a broken relay plug, The actual plug is broken from smashing a power block into it(long story). Think I may dig into it just to see if I can replace the outlet.

 

[Beth perwein]

what do you mean exactly by wicking the holes ..how do i do that??
Thanks

 

[Dxpert]

Hi Beth perwein, it means using a special braided copper wire with some flux on it to suck the solder out of the hole, it makes getting the old component legs out much easier. If you search YouTube for removing through-hole components you will find a ton of videos on how to do it. It doesn't much matter what process you use, solder wick or vacuum. Just get the old part out, clean the holes up and install the new parts.