Porter Cable NiCd charger parts????

[air8]

Hey everyone,

I was mounting one of my chargers to the wall. In doing so I knicked the circuit board with a drill bit and scraped part of the brass circuit off. All because I couldn't locate my tamper proof bits to take the charger case apart. LOL.

Anyway I was gonna research where to buy a replacement board but I'm not finding much discussion about the chargers. Earlier I read one person's post about "all the issues" with the Porter Cable chargers, but I just don't find much out there.

Looking for replacement circuit board or at least some electronic discussions about battery chargers.

Thanx

 

[uart]

I was mounting one of my chargers to the wall. In doing so I knicked the circuit board with a drill bit and scraped part of the brass circuit off.

Are you sure you only broke a track and didn't take out any actual components (resistors diodes etc)? If so you might be able to simply patch up the broken track by soldering a short jumper wire.

Can you post photos (both sides of the circuit board). I might be able to give more advice.

 

[air8]

I can post photos when I get home.

But yea, I barely knicked the epoxy coating(green coating) and wiped one short piece of the track off the board.

 

[uart]

I can post photos when I get home.

But yea, I barely knicked the epoxy coating(green coating) and wiped one short piece of the track off the board.

Yeah that should be easy to fix then. Just scrape the green coating off each side of the break to expose clean copper and solder a short bridging wire across the gap. There should be nothing more than an amp or two in a charger like that, so you won't need a ******** wire or anything. (Working with too heavier wire gauge can make it more difficult and tend to need more heat and possibly damage or lift tracks).

Start by cleaning the track to back to copper and then use flux cored electrical solder to get a small coating (blob) of solder on each cleaned spot. Then just solder the bridging wire between the two blobs.

 

[air8]

I'll locate some small wire. The smallest stuff I have is for Radio Control but it is up to 12 ga. stranded for the current carrying capacity.

 

[TTA579]

uart is correct, and your wire should be sufficient. Good luck!

-Electrical engineer approved.

 

[metaldad]

this place is an excellent source for repair parts.
exploded drawings, quik shipping. however, the shipping charges may kill you, unless you are ordering multiple things.
i dont believe, however, they have charger parts.
http://www.ereplacementparts.com/porter-cable-misc-parts-c-129_1882.html

 

[air8]

This in macro and I wasn't holding still for good focus. But easy enough to see.

 

[TTA579]

Eek. Yes, you should be able to fix that with a jumper wire if there is no underlying damage. It certainly going to be easier and cheaper than finding a replacement.

 

[uart]

This in macro

Yeah, that's only a low current track and will be a nice easy fix. Use a reasonably light gauge insulated wire and bare back just enough to make the connections (about 3mm). Bend it around and solder it approximately as shown in the attachment below.

Tin (solder coat) the ends of the wire before you do it and make sure you don't have any frayed strands that could short anything.

 

[air8]

Is 18 gauge speaker wire too large?? I think I can find some laying around.

 

[uart]

Is 18 gauge speaker wire too large?? I think I can find some laying around.

That's a bit bigger than I'd use, but it work probably work ok. To be honest though you'd be making it bit harder for yourself than need be.

Ideal would be something like a (core from a) piece of telephone wire or cat5 lan cable. From memory I think these are around 22 to 24 gauge.

 

[air8]

Ahhh good call. Ok have several older grey color cat-5 cables at home.

Awesome. After I get a pencil tip for the iron I will report back. Thanx for the suggestions.

 

[air8]

SUCCESS! Got the charger back in operation. Thank you everyone.

 

[air8]

I'm still super pumped this charger is back in operation. Three weeks of using the charger everyday. Booyah!!

 

[uart]

Three weeks of using the charger everyday. Booyah!!

Looks good.