9 Sep
2006
9 Sep
'06
2:55 a.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
So what I want to know is how the thing functioned at
all without the cap (burnt carbon acted as a capacitor in some way)? and what caused it to
stop working.
Wel the carbon would act as a resistor. What you might find is that the
cap is just decoupling a supply line somewhere, in which case it can
probably lose one without too much worry.
Gordon.