Mag Charger: electronics details needed!

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Hello to everybody at CPF - and a Happy New Year!

Lost and found - after several months under really bad conditions my father's Mag Charger needed a drying, a new bulb and a new NiCd battery stick. While trying to get the charging cradle back to work as well - there was some corrosion inside the lamp preventing this - I discovered there's some of the charging electronics integrated in the body of the lamp itself. Now I wonder if that was also damaged.

I'm a little bit confused about two things: the battery is charging with some rather poor 100 mA (it's a 2.2Ah ). What really surprises me: even when switched off there is a discharging current through the body of the lamp of about 1 mA ...

Anybody out there with a Mag Charger could do me a great favor and check those two values and post it here.

Thanks!

 

[Deleted member 684]

Maybe you can try sending both stuff back to them? They should repair it and send it back to you rather quickly.

 

[dano]

The charge rings on the body of the light should be diode-protected, as to not allow current to come from them (mainly to prevent a metal object from shorting the battery out).

If you're getting voltage from the lamp-end of the light, the light probably has a bad or corroded switch assembly. I would send it in to Mag, and have them look at the light.

--dan

 

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Hi there. Thanks for the quick replies. I thought maybe I could avoid to send in the light if those values are just normal!? I measured the discharging current at the body of the light - between battery and case whith the tailcap removed - even when the lamp-end with the switch is removed as well.