When we purchased Akupara we knew that most if not all of her systems were suspect to say the least and we went ahead with the intent of replacing everything that needed to be replaced. However, if something could be saved and was perfectly fine, we would re-use it of course.
This brings me to the electrical. All of the wiring was 40 years old and although it was in good shape it does not meet current code so we removed it all. The battery charger and the inverter are not that old, however we knew that the charger did not work and I saw immediately that the inverter had never been installed correctly.
I went on the net and did a search in regards to fixing the charger. Turns out that according to everything I read the company that made them will not fix them and you have to buy a new one.
Disclaimer: I did not personally contact the company to verify this.
Great. Well a little more digging and I found an article about this very charger and how frustrated someone else was that it could not be serviced there is a nice warning right on the case advising you of just that.
Bullshit. That’s all I have to say besides WTF.
Open the damn case and change the blown fuses before you throw yours away and spend another boatload of money.
Now I am fully well aware that this may not fix it. And I am fully well aware that there is an underlying problem if your charger blows fuses but just ask yourself this. Is it worth 15 min of your time and $2 worth of fuses to try or is it better to throw it completely away? I will take another 15 minutes to clean up the bit of corrosion that is around the fuse holders before I wire it in.
WTF?
Companies like this should be ashamed.
I should file this under the Why page on this site.
So, I could have possibly wasted 15 minutes of my time and $2 worth of fuses but to be honest, I have had the fuses for years anyway so really it is only my time that I spent.