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Repairing Your SwitcheOn Tanis PreHeat Remote
A modification to replace the internal, soldered-in ceramic fuse on a Tanis PreHeat Remote with an easily accessible panel-mount fuse holder. The post Repairing Your SwitcheOn Tanis PreHeat Remote appeared first on AvBrief.com.
The tiny ceramic fuse.
If you have the popular Tanis PreHeat Remote, it’s likely you either have overloaded and blown its internal fuse, or will! Well, OK, maybe you’re more careful than I am, but in addition to pre-heat, I often use my Tanis outputs for other things, like the battery charger for my tug. And recently, I plugged in a motorized device with a startup surge current, and suddenly the Tanis PreHeat Remote was dead!
What to do? A removal of four screws and quick trace of the power input revealed an inline 15-amp fuse, which, of course, was blown. But it happens to be a soldered-in tiny ceramic fuse—hard to find and a pain to replace in the future. A simple solution revealed itself: Particularly if you have the two-output Tanis, the case has two knockouts for the additional outputs for the four-output version. I chose one of them, drilled it out to a half-inch for a standard 3AG panel-mount fuse holder, and installed the fuse holder with two short wires soldered to the PCB pads where the ceramic fuse was located. A 15-amp 3AG fuse finished the job off! Now, any future blown fuses can be replaced in a jiffy!
Fuse holder: Amazon, DigiKey
Fuse holder soldered to ceramic fuse pads.
Fuse holder installed in the drilled knockout.
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