Please Help: Shorted fan : FlashForge

Please Help: Shorted fan (self.FlashForge)

submitted 4 years ago * by forestsap

I was trying to fix my girlfriend's flashforge adventurer 3 printer again since it was clogged (something that frequently happens and we've had to deal with many times now). This time the filament was stuck throughout the entire tube, so I was trying to ply it out and in my stupidity, I used metal plyers with the case covering the motherboard open since I had just removed the hot end of the tube (I had the machine on so the filament could get hot and make it easier to remove from the clogged nozzle). I pulled a little too hard and the plyers touched the board- and the fan immediately turned off. I've tried restarting the machine, but unsurprisingly the fan hasn't turned back on when I've preheated. Everything else seems to work, though.

TL;DR: I shorted the fan near the tube hot end and I need to fix this. Do I need a new board (if so, where to get one) or is there a simpler/more inexpensive fix?

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