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| Thread ID: 71407 | 2006-08-05 00:47:00 | Sandwich toaster wiring | sam m (517) | PC World Chat |
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| 476165 | 2006-08-05 00:47:00 | Hi, Sunbeam toaster stopped working few months ago. It was sitting in my garage so I had to put a screwdriver to it to find out what was wrong. It appeared a wire had come off due to heat damage. I replaced the connector but wondered if the damage was due to wiring fault or heat from the hot plate. I am 99% sure that the damage was due to heat from the hotplate but if so then this must be due to poor design. I have a pic of the wiring after I have fixed it. I have tested it (plugged it on and plate gets hot) but wonder if there is anything else I should be checking. pic (www.imagef1.net.nz) The left circle is the repair - the right circle is another connection that has heat damage but only to the immediate area of the connector. If there was a short then I would expect the whole wire to be damaged. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 476166 | 2006-08-05 01:04:00 | I have seen exactly the same thing on 2 kettles, it is poor design or the factory is using the wrong size wire too close to the heat. Teething problems with Chinese manufacturing. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 476167 | 2006-08-05 01:15:00 | Geez Sam... if you have to ask about wiring, my opinion is to leave the beast alone and buy another. Electricity stuff just gives me the shivers! Worse than spiders! | Greg (193) | ||
| 476168 | 2006-08-05 01:16:00 | looks fine to me. but keep in mind that i dont have a cert in any electral stuff. I am also not to play with sharp objects :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 476169 | 2006-08-05 01:34:00 | The brass "QC" connectors will be annealed by high temperatures . If it wasn't making good contact to start with, arcing would make things worse . :D The right hand circled area shows the heat resisting sleeving is too far back from the connector . Push it up against the connector, so it covers the charred (electrical) insulation on the wire . If there is room in the housing, I'd try to run the wires as far as possible from the hot plate . Is there a lump inside that sleeving? There appears to be the end of something visible . That might be a thermal cutout or fuse . I don't know whether that is meant to be shielded from radiant heat by the sleeving . Anyway, make sure the wire can't touch the (well earthed I see) hotplate . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 476170 | 2006-08-05 07:02:00 | Standards would call for a visual test, an insulation resistance test, operational test, and polarity test from memory, then the best test of them all. The flight test, grab by lead rotate around in a clockwise motion until sufficient velocity is gained, let go of lead & leave where it drops. Seriously if it was mine - i'd chuck it & buy another K |
Kelem (10339) | ||
| 476171 | 2006-08-05 09:23:00 | i'd chuck it & buy another K Thats what they want you to do. Consume, consume, consume. Once things were made to last and debt was a dirty word. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 476172 | 2006-08-05 09:53:00 | Actually the two I looked at were quite well made with good engineering standards and some modern methods but a stupid assembly mistake, (and I have seen this done in three electronic assembly factories here, which shall remain unnamed, many times in different ways) had let the rest of the machine down. One of the reasons why I got out of manufacturing and production electronics as a career. A machine can be seen like a chain, one broken link and it's all over. Absolutely useless. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 476173 | 2006-08-05 10:05:00 | Reckon I would feel pretty crappy if the repair was fine for a while then someone got between the toaster and say the neutral bar :-( | Kelem (10339) | ||
| 476174 | 2006-08-05 11:24:00 | Too paranoid, that is what Double Insulation and Earthing prevent. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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