Showing posts with label capacitor. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

capacitor capacity

Got another film crew coming out in a few days so I'm back on clean up duty.  Cleared some stuff in front of the greenhouse, mulched some planters with my wood chip score, and thinned the green bean plants.

Had some more trouble with the gennie a couple of days ago.  Had my air compressor plugged in and it popped while laboring to compress. Some magic smoke came out of the compressor motor.  Weird thing is, I checked the voltage on the gennie right after the pop and found it was fluctuating from 105 to 130.  Today I checked it and it was steady at 108VAC....made an adjustment on the one tiny trim pot on the new AVR to 112VAC.  Have yet to decide which tool to test it with (I had tested the gennie right after installing the new AVR with my compressor and everything worked perfectly) . Opened up the compressor and found what I expected - a starting capacitor had burst.  Ordered a replacement from these guys. http://www.temcoindustrialpower.com/products/AC_Electric_Motor_Start_Capacitors/SC0038.html
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