Just joined due to the helpful posts I found in relation to a Hotel Chocolat Velvetiser which I now have working. Saved me a lot of time.

A bit about me: I have been in electronics all my life, working with radiation detection kit where I completed a 5 year apprenticeship, then early stage computer graphics (wire wrapped!), Telex and Fax (not the mechanical type, CPU based) and then into the PC World when things changed and I became a Novell and then Microsoft accredited engineer. Latterly my last job was installing and supporting call centre solutions (AKA wallboards), much of this...

I found this post really helpful as I had one of these on the bench with exactly the same fault, and indeed exactly the same cure!

But before I bought a replacement only to find there was something else wrong, I thought I would test it using a high value resistor (megaohms) with wire wrapped around to provide some inductance.

However after digging through my pile of bits and bobs that 'I may need sometime' I found one, it was the wrong value but it served to prove this was indeed the cure so I have now ordered the correct one.

All this led me to join Badcaps,...