6000 Di Pro sl burn out

[Mikelmon]

A part burned out on my 6000s main circut board this week and due to the damage I have not been able to tell what it is. Looks like it might be a yellow capassitor but what level and power I have no Idea

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[Skippy]

Try re-posting the pictures, they didn't appear on your first post.

[Mikelmon]

pics of burnout

[Mikelmon]

Burn out pics

Sorry use to drag and drop tried every which way to put the pics on they can be viewed here. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=f94755ad49
Thanks
Mike

[porkluvr]

I have drag-dropped pictures into these forums, or maybe I only imagined I did becuse I haven't been able to do it lately. wierd

So, use the paperclip icon next to the smiley-face.



Those are not extremely good photos but that looks sort of like an inductor.

[satdaveuk]

Tell us what is written on the component could be either a electro or a inductor by the pictures but doesnt tell me anything to wether its faulty or not, if its a capacitor possibly could do with changing at some point but with my experience over the years it very rarly the capacitor that looks iffy, its normally one that looks perfectly ok.
If its a inductor then looks wise see no problem with it.
In general terms the only times when a electro capacitor will blow as in a pop and smoking is when either a older machine has not been turned on for months on end where caps become leaky loosing there electrolite or they have been wired incorrectly.
If you been using this machine quite regulary and all was working ok, and then all of a sudden you got smoke I would be looking at resistor burn up due to to semiconductor short ie regulator, that is providing of course that this fault isnt man made.
Depending where the component is placed if its a PI type detector check your coil connections for S/C also if not that check the coil its self because with PI types theres high voltages around that section of the circuitry that can take many components out, and if thats the case you will need to fault find and change as many as needed at one go, otherwise your back to square one blowing components as you change them doing also further damage.
Not all doom and glume proberly tech people on here that have experience with that particular model that maybe able to pinpoint your problem.

Regards

[Mikelmon]

cap burned up bad

Thanks but the cap was burned up so bad it could not be read I have the schematics and it looked like it was the 4.7 Tantalum Capacitor. Whites did get back to me and confirmed it last night. Good to have friends in the detecting world.
Thanks

[johnedoe]

Send it to a White's repair facility.
They will fix it up at a very reasonable price.

[DavidB]

You don't really even need that cap. Some of the other models don't have it. There is already a 470uf across those connections. Cut the leads off to where they are not shorting and I bet the detector will work fine without it.