Milwaukee Battery Charger M18/M12 Dual battery charger Dead no light during charging

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  • Milwaukee Battery Charger M18/M12 Dual battery charger Dead no light during charging

    Here we go again with tool battery pack chargers not wanting to charge because of one bad 10uf@50 volt capacitor and a 47uf@50 volt questionable ESR value

    10uf = 1.3 new 0.34
    47uf = 0.25 new 0.35

    The two capacitors replaced between the transformer and the heat sink

    A couple of days ago I put a battery on to charge and the red LED light was on when I went to go put the battery in the tool yesterday the fuel gauge showed one light out of four so I said what the hell is going on here the LED light is red or green it is not on at all so I open it up and checked the two capacitors that have gone bad on another Milwaukee battery charger I have same exact model so I been through this crap before but this one has lasted the longest time this is one of first battery chargers when they first start having the the “M” series I still have some of “V” series the ones that were nicad batteries

    One note on the “M12” battery pack these batteries are not the best batteries because the majority of them are made Korea and there quality is hit and miss some time they last for a long time and some of them only last a year or so the cells become unbalanced and the charger does not know how to deal with them and become useless if you try to put new batteries in it they will not charge correctly for some reason which I have not been able to figure out what is the issue with them but I think it has to do with the protection board in the battery
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