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Looks like a blown resistor in paper shredder
My paper shredder quit working. It has that "burnt electronics" smell. I opened it up and it appears the fuse is good. I tested across it with a multimeter. The motor is still good. I put voltage to it with a model train transformer and it turned OK. Transformer only puts out 17VDC and the motor is 120VDC, so it turned slow, but doesn't appear to be burned up. Took me a while to get around to it, but I finally saw the burn marks on the circuit board... looks like a resistor blew out. I can probably find the resistor and I can desolder the old one and solder the new one in, but I don't know what the value is. I'm color blind, so I can't really read the colors on resistors anyway, but is there any way I can find the value I need, or get close enough where the shredder will work? Seems like a pretty easy fix if I can get that resistor. Thanks.
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