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Offline digimbyteTopic starter

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Help with 2004 Soft-Start Repair
« on: February 05, 2020, 10:28:41 pm »
Hello!  I have an air conditioner from a now defunct Alpine AU from 2004 and we had some lightning damage to the main soft-start

What was damaged was some sort of resistor and a Triac

what they were specifically, are unknown.

I looked at other soft start boards for washing machines and other high powered AC motor controllers but nothing has been obvious as to what is common
I have replaced the TRIAC with a TOP3 BTA26 600B and the resistor connects pin A1 to Ground. other schematics have this at 100 Ohms but I don't think this is ideal.

I could be wrong but I figured I would ask before putting this back into my live AC Air conditioner

this board came from the following air unit
EcoHomes.biz : The JS 7017 AH Non Ducted Single Split System Air Conditioner by Alpine

I assume this board is still in circulation somewhere or can be replaced for cheap

TLDR: Is this the correct resistor value and Triac pair viable? (picture attached)
 

Offline TheMG

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Re: Help with 2004 Soft-Start Repair
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2020, 03:25:37 am »
If I'm not mistaking, the resistor is there to prevent leakage current from the opto from inadvertently triggering the TRIAC. A pull-down resistor effectively. 100 ohms seems like a reasonable value for this purpose.
 


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