Reporting Massive problem to Lincoln Vantages

[duaneb55]

Thanks for the heads up cruizer.

[cruizer]

Going to bump up this one so that the message gets out to everyone, or every tech knows

[griff01]

All you techs and owners of these machines after 2011. You must replace the control rectifier to the rotor ASAP. Seems that Lincoln forgot to add Heat sink Compound under them. The bridges are corroding thier bases. Corrosion means zero cooling to the bridges. Zero cooling means that once they cant handle the heat, they will blow, as will the $$$$ rotor. Easy $4000 fix right there. I have reported the problem to Lincoln, but just telling you guys now as the rotors may bake just after Warranty. There is no warranty to speak of after 3 years!!

I've been replacing them with 35 amp 1000 volt (GBPC3510)versions with a white heat sink compound.

The bridge voltage is merely the Breakdown heat the unit will take

Thank you Cruizer for sharing the info!

Griff

[cruizer]

All you techs and owners of these machines after 2011. You must replace the control rectifier to the rotor ASAP. Seems that Lincoln forgot to add Heat sink Compound under them. The bridges are corroding thier bases. Corrosion means zero cooling to the bridges. Zero cooling means that once they cant handle the heat, they will blow, as will the $$$$ rotor. Easy $4000 fix right there. I have reported the problem to Lincoln, but just telling you guys now as the rotors may bake just after Warranty. There is no warranty to speak of after 3 years!!

I've been replacing them with 35 amp 1000 volt (GBPC3510)versions with a white heat sink compound.

The bridge voltage is merely the Breakdown heat the unit will take