Probably contaminated the yard with PCBs. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 20:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Motor start capacitor.
Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 07:25:00PM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote: > >> > > > The general rule of thumb is that you should replace those caps with > their exact replacements, or at least stay within 10% of the original > capacitance. In my experience, as long as the voltage rating is the > same or higher and the capacitance value is somewhere in the same > universe with the original one (-50% - +100%), it doesn't seem to make > much of a difference for start caps (not true for run caps, though.) > Don't ever go below the original voltage rating, though; the fireworks > can be pretty impressive. I know _all_ about it. :))) When I was a very young teen, one of the hams a few years older than I invited me over to blow up caps. He took an electrolytic capacitor (called a condenser in those days), put it out in the yard away from the house and ran a long twisted pair to it. Then he applied way too much voltage. That was better than an M-80 or cherry bomb! He had a bunch of them he had pulled out of old tv and radio sets. Great fun! Jim. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
