Hey. I successfully repaired a RN 4081 atomizer. Enough talking, here are the pics:
The atomizer:
You pull the steel wool wrapped metal bridge:
Until it comes out:
At this point, if you pull the ceramic pot (actually it's plastic) the atomizer coil sits in you will break the wires:
Here you can see the ceramic pot, the coil, steel wool (actually there are 5 pcs) etc:
After you remove the steel wool from the ceramic pot (it's like a onion):
There's my problem. So, I took care of that, I also changed the wires because they were to short (I used 2 wires from a UTP cat5e cable).
Now, the hard part is to solder the end of my 2 new wires to the threads for the battery. You need to separate the steel tube from the threads for the battery without damaging the 2 peaces (this is the hardest part because the 2 peaces are glued together...so, just pull but be careful). After soldering and another 30min later I had a working atomizer.
My opinion is that is not worth it. But, if you get bored, there's nothing good at the TV, your girl friend dumped you or what ever, you could try to at least see what's wrong with it.
The atomizer:
You pull the steel wool wrapped metal bridge:
Until it comes out:
At this point, if you pull the ceramic pot (actually it's plastic) the atomizer coil sits in you will break the wires:
Here you can see the ceramic pot, the coil, steel wool (actually there are 5 pcs) etc:
After you remove the steel wool from the ceramic pot (it's like a onion):
There's my problem. So, I took care of that, I also changed the wires because they were to short (I used 2 wires from a UTP cat5e cable).
Now, the hard part is to solder the end of my 2 new wires to the threads for the battery. You need to separate the steel tube from the threads for the battery without damaging the 2 peaces (this is the hardest part because the 2 peaces are glued together...so, just pull but be careful). After soldering and another 30min later I had a working atomizer.
My opinion is that is not worth it. But, if you get bored, there's nothing good at the TV, your girl friend dumped you or what ever, you could try to at least see what's wrong with it.
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