Thursday, March 19, 2026

EcoQuest Fresh Air II air purifier repair 3

 Once again I am fixing one of my two Fresh AIr by ecoQuest air filters.  This time it struggles to turn on.  I was taking longer and longer to start up making multiple attempts but then failing and trying again.  It acted like a bad capacitor and the 8 volt power was at 5 volts so I tried a 220uF 16 volt capacitor from the 8 volts to ground.  It made no difference.  Then I moved the positive lead to the 12 volt power supply and it WORKED!

These pictures show where I soldered in the capacitor.  It need a little glue under it as well.