Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

I have a Dewalt / Black and Decker 40V trimmer model LST136 Type-1.

It stopped working. Trimmer motor tests fine. I opened it up to find that the controller board had a blown component at position Q5. It also looks like a similar component at D6 has a bulging area. These two mosfets? are attached to a heat sink. The D6 component looks to be a MBR20100CTP rectifier. The Q5 component blew apart, so its difficult to read the label. I am hoping to get help identifying the Q5 component. Pictures are attached.

In the photos, the heatsink and the Q5 component have already been removed from the board. One of the three legs broke off of the Q5 component.
The last 2 pics are of the component I need help identifying.

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

100v is too low for a schottky diode - 250v atleast.
ideally 10x the running voltage!

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Thanks. I will keep that in mind when ordering the D6 component.
Any idea what Q5 is?

I am attaching two more photos of the board

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Be careful with protection boards when repairing them make sure that the battery are not fully charged if necessary run them down to 3.2 volt and be ready to remove it from the tool or the charger if something goes horrible wrong

I have repair Ryobi battery packs sometimes you can repair them sometimes not

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Try and find someone who owns one (or buy a new one), open it up, identify the part, and then return it?

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

I just noticed that this battery pack is 40 volts which I do not have

Just be aware of this if this is an older battery pack the controller board of a new one might not be the same as one you have

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Here are photos of the trimmer with the model number.
The board is from inside the handle part.

The board is not from the battery itself.

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Based on a closer look at the blown chip, it looks like it is an Infineon IRL3705Z mosfet.
Digikey lists it as obsolete.

Can anyone help out finding this part or an equivalent?
Thanks.

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

If that is the correct mosfet...
Digikey IRL3705ZPBF-ND direct replacement, in stock

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Thanks!
Ordered a few of those and the MBR20200CTP (200V instead of 100V)

Hopefully that will get the trimmer working again...

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Check the gate drive circuit resistor (R24) to make sure it is not open, When the mosfet shorted, many times it also takes out the drive ic, that sot23-5, best to get it's number before it is also unreadable.

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

This means that the charger has the protection board and the battery has no protection board might not even have a protection fuse in it

When you test this board be careful and be ready to disconnect the battery very quickly if something goes horrible wrong

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

R24 resistor has 753 written on it and tests at 75.5 Kohm

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

The sot23-5 chip is hard to read but it looks like GX3mD maybe?

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Replacing the 2 chips had no effect. Still dead.
What about this component (largest chip in the corner) in the attached photo?

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

the "dale" part is a resistor - it should look like a short circuit.
clean the board with alcahol - it's hard to see the parts clearly.

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

After a closer look R24 is likely the resistor between the mosfet source pin (Dale resistor) and the CS pin of the ic, and not the gate drive resistor. Check that the resistors between the gate and the ic are ok.

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

I tried to take better photos of the board.
I also measured all of the resistors on the board and all seem to give an ohms reading (Highest was 100K and none seem to be open as far as I can tell).

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

what about these solder joints ?

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

I agree with you that these connections do not look very good

Re: Black and Decker 40V Lithium weed trimmer PCB board damage
 

Those contacts are soldered well on the opposite side of the board, and continuity from both sides of the board to the relevant connection points is good when tested with a multimeter.