Here’re the innards of my DOA TR-006. Maybe someone will say: “See that cap numbered 897? A coat of nail polish will fix it.”
Red wires go to the charging rails. Nothing amiss that I can see, although the only thing that I could ID would be a disconnected wire or something equally obvious.
I’ve seen some REALLY sloppy and cheap Chinese PCBs, but this looks pretty neat and well done, although not well done enough to make the thing work. 
Because of your nice work so far, I will disassemble my working AND non-working TR-006 and use my multimeter to determine where the two units start to differ 
Pics and info shortly.
-Jamie M.
Here is my working one:
I appear to be missing the “LED Holder” that’s in your pic:
And I’m pretty sure those aren’t supposed to be touching, and it looks a little different than your pic (the black thing with the copper wound wire).
Gonna rip apart the non-working one and take a look see
-Jamie M.
Ok, so the first place where I can find any problems starting from the 120ac input is at C10 to the bottom of C19. The good one is 2.5v DC and the bad one is 0.5v DC 
I’m checking to see of anything “important” got installed upside down with the rest of the upside down resistors, lol.
-Jamie M.
Well, the one not working is now totally fried. I was testing voltages around R3/R6 and the probe must have touched something it shouldn’t, sparks, smoke, doesn’t smell good. Now I don’t have power where I used to have power
I filed a paypal dispute and like 20 mins later the seller agreed to ship me two new chargers free of charge (pre-tested ones, lol).
So I’ll only be short one charger, I guess that’s OK
Good luck on your repair.
-Jamie M.
Thanks for trying to help! That was above and beyond the call. I got my money back no problem on the broken one. I always go with ebay sellers with ultra-high feedback, even if their products are a little more money. I told him the charger was DOA and he refunded my money in the next e-mail. Never asked me to send it back.
Thanks again. Sorry your charger burned up. That’s awful. That was the good one right? That’s why I don’t poke around with a DMM. I would have fried something in the first seconds. Thanks for trying.
I have one of these chargers also. Mine was from Manafont.The ac to dc power supply is dead.The charger does work fine with a direct dc input.I have checked all the solder joints and tryed tracing the a/c side but just got a headache.I could return it the MF but probably won’t bother…I’ll just use it w/5 amp 12v supply I already have.Supprised to see there have been others with the same problems with this charger…probably best to avoid it!-Rick
>>>>>probably best to avoid it!-Rick .
Now that you too have a broken one, I’d say it’s a definite avoid. Too bad. Was a nice-looking charger with okay specs, but after all this bad press, I won’t get within 10 feet of another one.
My temporary solution, I would like to have a 26650 charger though.
The seller agreed to send me two more chargers for free, to replace the three bad ones I got, so I’d be only short one charger.
Guess what, the two chargers they sent me are totally dead as well.
What the heck is going on? I specifically asked them to test the chargers before they sent them to me
-Jamie M.
>>>>>> I specifically asked them to test the chargers before they sent them to me
Well, I suppose they could have tested them and they could work on 240/220 and not 120? But that seems unlikely.
Man, you’d think after getting burned once, they’d check the chargers before shipping.
The charger boards from the following thread can be had for $1.78 with free shipping, solder one or two inside the bad chargers.
Wow, good timing! I just heard from two friends the exact same thing! They shipped them back to china, tested on 240v, BOOM! Work perfect!!!
Looks like there could be a defect in the 110/220 voltage setup in the charger
-Jamie M.
I hope that’s the reason why. I just ordered one from lightmalls, and I did not stumble upon this thread until later.
Australia uses 220-230v AC so it should work
Thanks for the heads up. Mine went out with the trash weeks ago, so I can’t check, but it definitely had the rubber finish. I don’t know about the hologram though. Don’t remember.
Mind sharing where did you get yours from? i might be interested in one
So how did everyone’s TR-006 chargers end up? I had no problems as you described, maybe there was a bad batch or seller who sold a cheaper production line? I purchased one then a second one so I could charge all 3 26650s for my J18 and ak48 together (especially since they are slow), both run reliably, but charge to 4.14-4.13 regularly, nightly for 1-2.5 months (depending on which one you look at)…I guess I’ll have slightly better battery life this way.
This may b of interest
Well, almost 11 mo now, for my TR-006 chargers, they are still going strong. Bought a TR-008 charger and am using that most frequently now so I can charge 3x26650s, although termination is at about 4.15/4.16V again instead of 4.20 (I think this is actually a bonus for battery life), it doesn’t overcharge batteries left in it and it works nice and fast in comparison to the TR-006. My XTAR WP2 charger didnt make it 7mo however, and it would terminate at 4.21V…ironic the more expensive charger just didn’t cut it out of the 4.