Best ultrasonic cleaner....

[Fjbj40]

Is it heated? The one I have will get to 80 cel easy. Once again I use a mil-spec degreaser/decarberizer. That may be the difference? This stuff cleaned every bit of carbon out of the combustion chambers! It also started lifting the paint!

bummer that you are not getting the same results?

 

[tkent02]

It's heated, I only went to 55 degrees C. Maybe hotter is better? It says it goes up to 80. I'll try it. Also I didn't use much of that detergent, maybe I'll try a lot more. You using 9-1 on that Brulin stuff like they recommend? I didn't go anywhere near that much.

Lifting the paint? Cool! If it could remove the paint that would be great, I want to powder coat all of the engine parts.

 

[barnbiketom]

WOW that is a nice large unit. Mine is 300 W and almost like the first one in the top post but the name is different.
I must confess, I found some professional chem dip and haven't used mine since but wonder if I should follow up with the ultrasonic too.
I still am unsure of what to use in the tank.
subscribe to this one to see what you are all using for the cleaning agent??

 

[tkent02]

Using this stuff:

Got it hotter, added more detergent, did a few more cycles, the head is getting clean now. Not removing paint but the carbon is gone, it looks really nice....
One more cycle and........

Snap!!

Made a sound like a fuse blowing and silence. The timer is still counting down, the heater is still heating, but no bizzzzzzz.

Have to check into it tomorrow after it cools off.

 

[tkent02]

This is where the smoke came out....

For you electronics guys, where can I get one of these?

 

[1948man]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6Valuesx5pc...582?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aad2ed85e

?????? Maybe 1 out of this set

 

[tkent02]

These look the same:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S50P1SI/ref=ox_huc_add_on_msg_title_1?m=A1THAZDOWP300U

 

[posplayr]

I would google the part number to see if you find amatch the find an alternate from there; if you have an exact match then ok


the one you picked from amazon looks right.

 

[tkent02]

OK, whatever you do don't buy this one. Very poorly made circuit boards, can't do any soldering without tearing up the area around your repair. Pretty much garbage now.

 

[JTGS850GL]

Sorry to hear of your recent loss. It's one reason I either buy known quality or build my own. The two things that damages cleaners most is running it with little or no fluid or running it for too long a cycle or to often without time to cool down.

Let me know if you want to part with it. I might be able to use the tank and heater assembly to augment mine. You could replace the transducer driver board as well.

If you still want to consider repair then the part is a 400V .33uf Metallized Polypropylene Film Capacitor. Should be able to pick one up from any number of electronics supply houses. Might want to try digikey.com. Here's a search that came up with it: http://www.digikey.com/product-sear...t=0&page=1&quantity=0&ptm=0&fid=0&pageSize=25

You might want to consider going up higher on the voltage rating if that one blew. You can always go up on the voltage, just not down. Be warned that that component may not be the only thing damaged. It may have let the smoke out but other things were probably compromised in the process.

 

[tkent02]

The problem was the circuitry is inside the area under the tank, it's hot in there. Very little ventilation, and a very wimpy fan. Maybe I ran it too long, couple of 30 minute cycles and some shorter ones, with quite a bit of cooling time in between. But the water tank was hot. I got the parts, very hard to solder them onto these really cheap ass circuit boards. Tiny little super thin traces, very thin board, it's very difficult. Pretty much screwed this one up.

No, I think I want to build a new driver for this tank and transducers. I want to make it so the electronic stuff is in a separate box with big cooling fans and cool fresh airflow. Something built stout so if something fries I can replace it. I'm not finding a ready made board for eight transducers, might have to design and build it myself. Might be a major engineering process, but I used to know how to do this stuff. Maybe a good wintertime project.

 

[JTGS850GL]

Try this company. I've had good luck with them and they have generators capable of powering anything from a 60W single transduce to huge commercial systems.

http://www.bjultrasonic.com/

 

[tkent02]

Thanks, sent them an email...
That would sure be a lot easier than figuring out how to build one.

 

[JTGS850GL]

Just as a side note, I use the HD pro solution straight and use it for at least 10 carb sets. When it gets dirty I just filter it through a coffee filter and it's good for another 10. If it evaporates too low I add water. I've cleaned close to 25 carb sets from one batch so far.