Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

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  • flatline
    Member
    • Apr 2019
    • 23
    • united states

    #1

    Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

    There is a short somewhere in the charging circuit. Every cap that shows 1 or 2 ohm has been removed, but circuit still short, so caps soldered back on.

    Measuring between positive and negative battery connector shows 1 to 2 ohms.

    Mosfet PU4406 shows 2 ohm, it was removed, still show 2 ohm across circuit, so I soldered PU4406 back on.

    Mosfet PU4403 was corroded, so it has been removed. and two caps above it were superheated and slightly welded to pads, they were removed.

    Next I check PU4401

    Pin1 33meg ohm
    Pin2 27meg ohm
    Pin3 89k ohm
    Pin4 72k ohm
    Pin5 1.5meg ohm
    Pin6 42k ohm
    Pin7 26k ohm
    Pin8 52k ohm
    Pin9 52k ohm
    Pin10 1.5meg ohm
    Pin11 1.5meg ohm
    Pin12 9 ohm
    Pin13 11 ohm
    Pin14 0hm
    Pin15 156k ohm
    Pin16 110k ohm
    Pin17 .5meg ohm
    Pin18 135k ohm
    Pin19 1.6 ohm
    Pin20 .5meg ohm

    I think pin 19 looks low, what should I do next?
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  • piernov
    Super Moderator
    • Jan 2016
    • 4435
    • France

    #2
    Re: Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

    That PCB doesn't look in good shape... What happened to it? If it's burnt just below PQ4201 label then that might be causing your short...
    Easy way of finding a short is inject voltage and find the part that's heating up.

    But if you excluded PU4406 and all the capacitors (PC4415-4418/4421/4423) then that leaves only PU4401 apparently. So I'd pull it first, and if the short is still there it's time to dig the burnt spot on the PCB I guess.
    OpenBoardView — https://github.com/OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView

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    • flatline
      Member
      • Apr 2019
      • 23
      • united states

      #3
      Re: Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

      Injected voltage and that PCB got hot. Dug it out. Short is gone. Now time to replace Caps, a 470k resistor, and PU4403 (AON703).

      I don't have any spare AON703. But I have a spare AON7401. Do you think AON7401 will be a good alternative? Would one 50V cap be ok instead of two 25v?
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      • mcplslg123
        Badcaps Legend
        • Jun 2015
        • 7262
        • india

        #4
        Re: Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

        Seems compatible as pulsed drain current is same though both differs a bit on other parameters but still should work. You should replace both caps and can get plenty from scrap boards.

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        • piernov
          Super Moderator
          • Jan 2016
          • 4435
          • France

          #5
          Re: Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

          Yes AON7401 for PU4403 should work fine.
          For the capacitor you can go same or higher voltage, but in general you'd need to more or less match the capacitance and ESR (so the number of capacitors in parallel and their capacitance).
          In this case they don't appear to be that critical so leaving one out shouldn't be an issue.
          OpenBoardView — https://github.com/OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView

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          • flatline
            Member
            • Apr 2019
            • 23
            • united states

            #6
            Re: Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

            Looks like it's working good so far, it charges and runs off battery. Thanks for the idea to dig. I dug deeper then was necessary because I didn't know what I was looking for. It ended up being a huge ground plane right underneath the hot plane making contact. The coating between the to planes disintegrated and contact was made. So all that I needed to do was peel back the hot plane far enough to where there was no more contact. I Jumped a wire along the hot plane because there was hardly any left.

            Thanks again.
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            • piernov
              Super Moderator
              • Jan 2016
              • 4435
              • France

              #7
              Re: Liquid damage. Charging circuit short. Runs fine without battery.

              Good job.
              When the PCB burns, it becomes conductive so you also need to remove the burnt PCB material. Sometimes you even have to dig a crater through the board to remove all the burnt stuff. You just have to hope there are no signal lines in the internal layers and there are just power planes…
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