Hi everyone,
I've been using the time in lockdown to go through my unfinished projects to complete them and I've come across my Polaroid 8x10 processor that seems to be cursed and has been sitting broken in a box for the past 7 years. It's a US unit (110V) but I live in Europe (220V) and the person I bought it from plugged it straight in the mains blowing the fuse. Moreover, the unit was battered badly during transit, cracking both the main drive gear and the plastic holders for the roller assembly. I was able to use bondo to repair the gear the plastic holders, but I'm not so lucky on the electronics front.
I replaced the fuse and used a step down (220V -> 110V) converter to try and power it up but it immediately resulted in smoke and a bad smell. Upon inspection it seems like a capacitor on the relay board was blown (or at least, I assume it is a capacitor. The one next to it that looks identical and survived is labeled ZNR K241 27). I've read multiple threads on this board about replacement of the oil filled capacitor used to drive the motor. That is something I should probably also do, but does not seem to be related to the malfunction of this particular unit.
Given I used the correct AC in voltage, does anyone know what could be the culprit here?
Any help is much appreciated!
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