14 May
2007
14 May
'07
10:46 p.m.
"Ed Thelen" <ed at ed-thelen.org> wrote:
Interestingly, we have not had to "re-form"
any capacitors
on capacitor start motors!! ?? I have no clue why.
One would reasonably expect some effort there.
Those are mostly non-polarized electrolytics, and they do
occasionally fail, sometimes rather spectacularly (meaning
big bang and lots of mess), at start time. Maybe you've
just been lucky :-).
Tim.