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well this is one of the lidl ones £12 i think it was
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worked well for about a year then nowt, i checked the fuse in the plug all ok
so got a driver bit to fit and whipped the back of as i figurted there might have been an internal fuse
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no joy , had this lot out of the housing and nothing on the pc side, must say there is quite a lot going on in therte for the money, pity it didnt last more than a year
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how often did you use it?had mine a couple of years,no problems so far(touch wood)
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cant recall, but it may have been fitted for a few months then removed and the refitted etc , either way i will buy another as it did the job well enough and maybe i had a bad one
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I have same charger. Mine has a problem that you cannot switch to charge with the mode button. You have to wait for some mins is standby before you can change the charging mode. But sometimes the waiting not works.
But it has 3 year guarrantee, so if i can find the bill I will get the money back
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thats what mine started doing ,, hmm will leave it out in the rain for a few days to get soaked then feed it from a traction battery , will make it smoke and be nice payback :twisted:
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I have a similar one, and its recharging my battery as I type this, hope its working lol, only got it last year.
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ZsZ wrote:I have same charger. Mine has a problem that you cannot switch to charge with the mode button. You have to wait for some mins is standby before you can change the charging mode. But sometimes the waiting not works.
But it has 3 year guarrantee, so if i can find the bill I will get the money back

We have several, had same problem with one, got it swapped no problem.

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