Repair thermoelectric cooler with FX102 power supply

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Rajivkalra29

Joined Dec 26, 2023
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Picked up a "works great" wine fridge that did not work great at all -- it didn't even power on! Upon finding this thread, I decided to replace the C8 cap with a big fat overprovisioned one (63V, 125C). As a total [de]soldering n00b it was a bit rough, but I managed to replace the C8 cap and it powered on!!! Felt like a million bucks. But here's the thing: the next day, I realized after closing it all up, I forgot to trim the long C8 cap legs and was worried about it touching something else over time, so re-opened it back up to do so and afterwards it no longer powered on. :(Tried desoldering and resolding the C8 cap several times (it was consistently too loose with the trimmed legs), but nothing worked, so I likely ruined the circuit board and/or the C8 cap from excessive heat. I really didn't want to buy a Chinese replacement board without a peltier fuse for $50 and wait weeks for it to arrive, but at the last minute I found a cheaper option locally under an alternative search term. So if you don't want to go through all this ballyhoo, just buy a replacement PCB from Newair:

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Can anybody send me wine cooler circuit board wiring diagram? Did you get a manual from Newair ? I have a larger wine cooler 90 bottles with three modules of Fx102 . Its old wine cooler some 10 years old but good overall condition but two modules stop working . I am upgrading the system by changing the 3x TEC 12706 to 3x TEC 12715 I have very large heat sinks . The Fx102 power supply unit will be small so I will be using 12v 50A regulated power supply to feed all three TEC 12715 directly . I am able to find the 12v connection for the external hot heat sink fan connection cable from the FX 102 but cannot locate the 12v connection for the internal cooling fan . Can someone help it telling me which point on theFX102 feeds the internal fan . This will save me a lot of time in going through each point on the circuit board .

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