Introduction
I found the instructions partly at this pages and decided to upload the completely new here:
http://www.brunwinkel.de/2011/09/wasserk... (german)
Tools
Parts
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Carefully remove metallic strip
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llift-up the entire black electric carrying unit carefully about 1 cm
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Un-click the fix of the black front cover and remove
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Unscrew 3 Torx T8 at the bottom of the kettle
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take 3 big flat screwdriver to 3 of the 6 holes and gently apply pressure directed to the middle to unlock the bottom cover
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in parallel: with a 3rd screwdriver lift the cover by help of the occuring slit at the side
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bottom cover should be revomed with gently force
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Un-click the small mount to remove one half of the grip
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un-fix carefully the hole half of the grip at the top of it and remove it
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Don't demage the cables inside the grip
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take a small screwdriver
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push the black cover around the kettle over the transparent 'litre scale"
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make it at both side of the kettle
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pull the black cattle carefulle to the bottom of the kettle
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stop, when you can see the full electric carrying unit (see also next step)
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Unscrew the two Torx T8 to open the electric carrying unit to a half
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unlock carefully the white rectacgular clip to release the black cover completely
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Lift the electric unit
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change the two marked capacitors by unsoldering the old ones
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yellow 'MKP X2 0.47μF / 275V'
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black '470μF / 16V' - check polarity: white stripe of the minus has to be located near the yellow capacitor!
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Assemble the kettle in reverse manner and check at the end that you don't have any parts over
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ENJOY YOUR WORKING KETTLE!
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Now it should heat up to 100°C and make 'beep' at the end again
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
15 comments
Great guide, I'm going to try this out soon, as our kettle quits at 80 degrees and just powers down completely. Might be helpful to list the symptoms that these faulty capacitors leads to somewhere early on. If not in the header, then at least at the top of the page.
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Dear RG! You made me hero in the eyes of my wife and saved lots of money as I will never buy ordinary kettle without a temperature choice. THANKS FOR THE FANTASTIC GIUDE!
This named is “Philips HD 4686” in Europe.
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