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    repair Tribest Sedona SD-P9000 dehydrator -- low DC voltage from power board: maybe rectifiers or caps?

    73's de Edd "oxidized diode lead that is floating within its solder blob . . . . . instead of an actual bad diode." aaaahhhh now i see what you were getting at ! too cryptic for me previously.... i hope phillipsf is able to get his machine running. thanks once again to all clever...
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    repair Tribest Sedona SD-P9000 dehydrator -- low DC voltage from power board: maybe rectifiers or caps?

    hi brush - so like yours i had 1 completely dead diode originally. it did fire into life when probing the diodes with power running. just as you describe. gave me a fright! ( of course i dont encourage anyone to play around inside it while the mains power is on ) i had read somewhere a...
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    repair Tribest Sedona SD-P9000 dehydrator -- low DC voltage from power board: maybe rectifiers or caps?

    thanks all contributors to this discussion - indentified and repaired blown diode on my dehydrator thanks to all of you. control panel now powers up at 5volts and looking good, just need to figure out why the control panel buttons dont respond now! a reed switch is mentioned in the...
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