There is no shame in dumping a lemon with full disclosure.
Bummer. Hope you decided to keep the bad OBC to see if someone is would like to buy it off you to fix it and maybe let you/MNL know what failed.baronvonshush said:After months I finally gave up and took it to the dealership. They replaced the OBC at a total cost of just over $2k. That hurt, but I figured it was much lower than the cost of replacing the vehicle, and I intend to drive this for many years as long as it easily covers my commute (the battery was replaced under warranty in 2015 with the newer pack at the time, and it's still in good shape at 11 bars). L1/L2 charging has worked flawlessly ever since the repair.
True. But in this case, the diode is buried inside the OBC, and is considerable work to get to, probably including draining part of the cooling system. The pilot wire is moderately easy to get to, and when you do, you can easily cut the wire, solder in the new diode, heatshrink, put everything back and it's done.goldbrick said:Usually, adding a part is much easier in parallel since you can just solder the new on top of the old part.
baronvonshush said:After months I finally gave up and took it to the dealership. They replaced the OBC at a total cost of just over $2k. That hurt, but I figured it was much lower than the cost of replacing the vehicle, and I intend to drive this for many years as long as it easily covers my commute (the battery was replaced under warranty in 2015 with the newer pack at the time, and it's still in good shape at 11 bars). L1/L2 charging has worked flawlessly ever since the repair.
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