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Hi,
My timer switch on my super jolly stopped working a few years back. At the time I just joined the wires together and have been using the power point as the on/off.
Today, After seeing the price of a new switch ($129) I decided to open up the old switch to try and fix it. I found that simply one of the flat copper pieces making up one "Pole" of the switch had broken at the point where it is bent at a right angle. This means the other side of the switch still works. (Confirmed with multimeter)
I am thinking about leaving the Neutral wires joined together (as I have for the last few years) and connecting the Active wires back to the good side of the switch.
Can anyone see any problems doing this? I am not sure why the grinder uses a switch which breaks both active and neutral wires.
My other option was to get a new switch from jaycar. But when I had a look in the shop they only had switches that I could only join the active wires to anyway.
My timer switch on my super jolly stopped working a few years back. At the time I just joined the wires together and have been using the power point as the on/off.
Today, After seeing the price of a new switch ($129) I decided to open up the old switch to try and fix it. I found that simply one of the flat copper pieces making up one "Pole" of the switch had broken at the point where it is bent at a right angle. This means the other side of the switch still works. (Confirmed with multimeter)
I am thinking about leaving the Neutral wires joined together (as I have for the last few years) and connecting the Active wires back to the good side of the switch.
Can anyone see any problems doing this? I am not sure why the grinder uses a switch which breaks both active and neutral wires.
My other option was to get a new switch from jaycar. But when I had a look in the shop they only had switches that I could only join the active wires to anyway.
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