Thank you - this video is worth watching for the strain relief repair/replacement information alone!

A very clear and well explained video. Thank you for sharing

@ecologicaltime

3 жыл бұрын

thank you

I have a heated "throw" or "lap blanket" that just died yesterday. It is one of those with a button on a controller that steps through three settings. I did not know how I was going to approach it until I saw this and your measuring across the outside contacts. I was going to go at it blind but now I have a possible starting point. Thanks for the good info. (In fact, I now have about three of these things that have all failed after about one year. A coincidence? I think not.) I appreciate your comment about not just throwing it out and buying new. We are doing way to much of that in our world now. Land fills are filling up and we are depleting natural resources. To say nothing of our own labor. Planned obsolescence is getting out of control with manufacturers fighting to prevent us from repairing what we purchased. Thanks again.

@ecologicaltime

3 жыл бұрын

thanks for your comment, i feel the same way

@gmoneyman16635

2 жыл бұрын

I have one with 5 settings im assuming you have a sunbeam like me. Its a very basic control unit with Lo - 5 High setting and it failed in under a year and never washed it.

Great job! Working on my heating pad now.

Great job. Thanks for the easy explanation.

Hi, thank you for the excellent video. I have a question: my electric blanket only lights up on setting 2. Nothing on settings 1 or 3. I have opened the controller and checked the resistances, thermostat and diodes with a multimeter, but cannot seem to find anything that is not working. I also cleaned the actual connection areas between the switch and pc board, but still no luck. Any suggestions that I may try? Thanks.

Hi i tested the thermal fuse and it was good and also checked 240V on the output side of the fuse and it was there. All diodes test good- no other electronics on this one, but i have 4 wires from the blanket and no matter what combination i try i get at min is a few thousand ohms?? does that mean the coils in the blanket have had it as i noticed the little light sometimes come on and not although the blanket did heat , now i get nothing on any setting and no light or warmth on blanket. Thanks

How can one be sure if the thermal cut out is working correctly. Mine doesn’t give a reading at all in ohms. Can one buy a new one at Communica?

@ecologicaltime any idea what rating LED its using? My LED has blown and I need a replacement.

Thanks from a fellow SAFFA. Through your useful video I’ve detected that my thermal fuse has blown. Do we need this ? Is it possible to simply bypass it ?

I had the thermal fuse blow on mine. I replaced it and it went again. I assume one of the resistors is overheating. Do you think it would be a fault in the blanket causing this?

just took mine apart. The component that is the thermal cut out is open circuit. Where would I get one the same please ?

Hello, i had measured with multimeter to the exit of the controler (AC) and my measure are 10 v in position one, 11v en position 2, and 12 v in position 3. is it ok? i have seen your measure are 110v o 220 v... my blanket is to old. Could you tell me anything? thanks

I purchased a SABLE heat and neck heating pad. when I got it home I found out the controller won't work. it wasn't returnable so I contacted SABLE and they couldn't even tell me where to find another working controller cord and wouldn't honor the warranty that it claims they have on their products. any idea what I should do short of buying another from somewhere and just using the cord?

Thanks!

@ecologicaltime

Жыл бұрын

thank you

Hello thanks so much for this. Where can one buy the diadodes separate? I am in Jhb.

@ecologicaltime

4 жыл бұрын

Mantech, or Communica

Spring popped out, how to put it back?

Hello my electric blanket has stopped heating up but the control dial still works fine. Does this mean it's the plug in the blanket that's not working??

@angelofhell4959

2 жыл бұрын

It may be that your plug point or plug that you use isnt working or something about the control connector(may not be connected properly etc..)

I just put me electric blanket on last week and now it’s not working it says E on both of them what do I do

What is "thermal charata"? (in subtitles 9:08)

It just looks like we are sold rubbish electric blankets here in Joburg. We have now dead electric blankets in less than a year. We don’t know where to take them to be fixed. We certainly don’t know how and we can’t risk fiddling.

@Charliegirl-rz7wg

5 ай бұрын

I'm thinking I need to buy new controller on eBay

Do i need to unplug it first before repairing mine?

@ecologicaltime

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@Charliegirl-rz7wg

5 ай бұрын

I know you not serious. 🤡

Where do you buy fuses, etc.?

@mahnoorsadia3874

Жыл бұрын

Any local shop

@tba1879

Жыл бұрын

@@mahnoorsadia3874 Can't find them anywhere.

@Charliegirl-rz7wg

5 ай бұрын

​@@tba1879that my thoughts probably won't find them

My electric blanket lasted one season and now it just gets barely warm, but at first it would get so hot at 4 whereas now 10 doesn't even get beyond warm.

@nunyabizz8516

3 жыл бұрын

I've had two. Electric throw and a full size for a queen size bed with two dials. Both only lasted about 5 months.

@generalawareness101

3 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabizz8516 I just bought another Sunbeam, and already it is weaker so doing the same thing the other did. Man, I miss those 1970's Electric blankets that were thick, and lasted several lifetimes. Cool thing was that they didn't cost you an arm, and a leg, either.

@ItzFlame1

3 жыл бұрын

@@generalawareness101 and they didn’t have these stupid timers

@generalawareness101

3 жыл бұрын

@@ItzFlame1 Yep. Mine says 10 hours, but if you do the maths it really is about 8 hours. Why? Simple, these timers are made to be universal and in a 50hz country. Now the USA is a 60hz AC country. (50/60)*10=8.33 hours which is what we get.

My controller doesn't have screws that I can screw off?

@richardjackson3605

2 жыл бұрын

t5g

watching this sleeping on an electric blanket...zzz

How can I know/decide which wire is phase/positive wire and which is neutral /negative wire when same colour of wires are used.Please explain Sir, Thanks.

@ecologicaltime

3 жыл бұрын

you would need a multimeter and set it to volts. Then you would measure between one wire and the earth wire at the plug, then the other wire and the earth wire at the plug. The wire which gives you higher voltage is live.

Definitely looks complicated.

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That looks extremely dangerous ...do not do this in the United states of America...