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Oddjob:
I bought an Ultrasonic bath in January to use on a bank of carbs I was restoring, used the bath twice and the last time it blew with 2 loud pops. Contacted the Ebay seller who asked me to take pics of the PCB boards, the PCB mounted fuses have clearly blown and after much toing and froing they gave me a full refund. They also stated I could keep the bath, they didn't want it back. This got me thinking, could I replace the fuses on the board and get the bath working again?

One odd thing to note however, not sure if this is the case with all of them but mine refused to heat the liquid in the bath unless the vib motor was also running, this meant it was running around 90 minutes in total and could be the reason the fuses blew. Are they all like that? This is the one I bought https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314275396344

I'll heat the liquid in a pan on the stove in future so I don't need the vib motor going as long.

So are these fuses available to buy, if so where and what do I look for..









I was thinking of not demounting the old fuses, just tag onto the existing wires, saves risking the PCB being damaged by excessive heat. I'm fairly proficient at soldering BTW and have quite a few different sizes and heat ranges of soldering irons.

Bryanj:
Ken, i would put remote blade type fuse holders in mounted somewhere safe and accessible

Orcade-Ian:
Ken,
It appears worse than just fuses - there appears to be some serious trauma around that diode (D6?) in the second pic and the solder seems to have melted around the diode mount hole and that blue bodied resistor looks suspect too. What is that splodge between diodes D7 and D9 in the first pic? 
Those components are probably part of the bridge rectifier in the power supply.

Ian

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
That's bad luck at that price - I bought one from Allendale Electrical a Vevor 6.5 Litre digital version £85.99 brand/supplier recomended by someone here. I've used it about a dozen or more times, still okay mine was model JPS-30A it does state not to use continually for more than 30 mins. to avoid overheating. My model is no longer listed on their site.
 

juitz:
Side topic on Vevor -  I purchased a Vevor unit and stopped working about 11 months into owning it.

Was an absolute nightmare trying to firstly get it repaired or refund.

Firstly, they don't have local presence and asked me to take to a local repairer at my cost. When I refused and requested a refund they said they couldn't give me a full refund because I had used it for almost a year, even though their warranty policy said replace or refund within 12 months. It took me about 2 months of back and forth to finally get almost all my money back.

Vevor seem to have pulled ultrasonic cleaners from their line in the UK.

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