Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

8

Time Required

                          1 - 2 hours

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Introduction

http://www.brunwinkel.de/2011/09/wasserk… (german)

http://forum.electronicwerkstatt.de/phpB… (german)

https://www.rojtberg.net/645/repairing-p… (english)

What you need

Step 1

              Capacitors
  • Remove top lid
  • Unscrew 5x Torx (T8)
  • Remove red cover
  • Remember position of metallic bracket

Remove top lid

Unscrew 5x Torx (T8)

Remove red cover

Remember position of metallic bracket

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Step 2

  • Carefully remove metallic strip
  • llift-up the entire black electric carrying unit carefully about 1 cm
  • Un-click the fix of the black front cover and remove

Carefully remove metallic strip

llift-up the entire black electric carrying unit carefully about 1 cm

Un-click the fix of the black front cover and remove

Step 3

  • Unscrew 3 Torx T8 at the bottom of the kettle
  • take 3 big flat screwdriver to 3 of the 6 holes and gently apply pressure directed to the middle to unlock the bottom cover
  • in parallel: with a 3rd screwdriver lift the cover by help of the occuring slit at the side
  • bottom cover should be revomed with gently force

Unscrew 3 Torx T8 at the bottom of the kettle

take 3 big flat screwdriver to 3 of the 6 holes and gently apply pressure directed to the middle to unlock the bottom cover

in parallel: with a 3rd screwdriver lift the cover by help of the occuring slit at the side

bottom cover should be revomed with gently force

Step 4

  • Un-click the small mount to remove one half of the grip
  • un-fix carefully the hole half of the grip at the top of it and remove it
  • Don’t demage the cables inside the grip

Un-click the small mount to remove one half of the grip

un-fix carefully the hole half of the grip at the top of it and remove it

Don’t demage the cables inside the grip

Step 5

  • take a small screwdriver
  • push the black cover around the kettle over the transparent ’litre scale"
  • make it at both side of the kettle
  • pull the black cattle carefulle to the bottom of the kettle
  • stop, when you can see the full electric carrying unit (see also next step)

take a small screwdriver

push the black cover around the kettle over the transparent ’litre scale"

make it at both side of the kettle

pull the black cattle carefulle to the bottom of the kettle

stop, when you can see the full electric carrying unit (see also next step)

Step 6

  • Unscrew the two Torx T8 to open the electric carrying unit to a half
  • unlock carefully the white rectacgular clip to release the black cover completely

Unscrew the two Torx T8 to open the electric carrying unit to a half

unlock carefully the white rectacgular clip to release the black cover completely

Step 7

  • Lift the electric unit
  • change the two marked capacitors by unsoldering the old ones
  • yellow ‘MKP X2 0.47μF / 275V’
  • black ‘470μF / 16V’ - check polarity: white stripe of the minus has to be located near the yellow capacitor!

Lift the electric unit

change the two marked capacitors by unsoldering the old ones

yellow ‘MKP X2 0.47μF / 275V’

black ‘470μF / 16V’ - check polarity: white stripe of the minus has to be located near the yellow capacitor!

Step 8

  • Assemble the kettle in reverse manner and check at the end that you don’t have any parts over
  • ENJOY YOUR WORKING KETTLE!
  • Now it should heat up to 100°C and make ‘beep’ at the end again

Assemble the kettle in reverse manner and check at the end that you don’t have any parts over

ENJOY YOUR WORKING KETTLE!

Now it should heat up to 100°C and make ‘beep’ at the end again

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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peterlpj - Apr 27, 2015

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0,75 €, 20 minutes - It work´s! Thank you!

Robert - Apr 27, 2015

Thanks for your feedback. 20 minutes was quite fast - great!

My one is now working for more than one year after repair without any problems. We will see, how long until next repair ;-)

steigre - Dec 11, 2015

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Great guide, I’m going to try this out soon, as our kettle quits at 80 degrees and just powers down completely. Might be helpful to list the symptoms that these faulty capacitors leads to somewhere early on. If not in the header, then at least at the top of the page.

Visumservice Russia - Jan 10, 2017

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Dear RG! You made me hero in the eyes of my wife and saved lots of money as I will never buy ordinary kettle without a temperature choice. THANKS FOR THE FANTASTIC GIUDE!

tobiasisenberg - Jun 14, 2017

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Two notes: (1) It should be mentioned that the MKP X2 0.47μF / 275V capacitor is usually the faulty one. The posts on the German site to which you linked reported that it looses capacity until the power is no longer enough to power the 80 degree LED when it comes on. In my case, similar to the reports from the German site, the remaining capacity had been lower than 0.14μF—clearly not enough. (2) One apparently does not have to use the 26.5 x 8.5 x 17 mm version that was part of the kettle initially, I had an old X2 capacitor from a broken power supply with the same parameters but with a size of 18 x 10 x 16 mm and that worked just fine after I had extended the short connecting wires.