Hygena Cooker Hood Printed Circuit Boards =20 The other day someone asked me =91Why won=92t my cooker hood work?=92, appa= rently it just died without warning. I of course had to ask what brand of c= ooker hood they had and was told that it was a Hygena model cooker hood. A = little investigation led me to finding out that there are various types of = Hygena PCB=92s or printed circuit boards as we call them. Further investiga= tion reveals that there seems to be a very common Hygena Printed Circuit Bo= ard that likes to act up, leaving us with no fan to suck up our cooking odo= urs and leaving us in a fog of fried bacon. Luckily this was still availabl= e to buy as a lot of these cooker hoods are now very hard to acquire parts = which seems is the norm with most MFI type appliances which no longer exist= . =20 The particular PCB in question which was for model number APP2420 (just lik= e this one:
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) also fit= ted 11 other models as well. Also, a little bit of DIY know-how was require= d to fit this unit as soldering of wires was also required. Also, if you ar= e doing this yourself please don=92t forget to isolate the power supply! =20 After fitting the new PCB the cooker hood was back up and fully functional = at a far reduced cost to what a new appliance would have been. A simple and= relatively low cost fix for anyone who is a DIY person and would rather re= pair than replace.