[Boatanchors] start capacitor

manualman at juno.com manualman at juno.com
Sun May 5 00:10:27 EDT 2013


In reference to what Ken posted in looking at the archives, he never
mentioned number of conductors. There's something not very inviting in
mounting/dangling even a sealed cap in all the weather environments.

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com

On Sat, 4 May 2013 22:22:10 -0500 D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
writes:
> I note that Kenneth was referring to AT the rotor 
> and not IN the rotor! If I recall, he stated that the 
> capacitor is effectively across pins 4 and 8 of the 
> rotor. He said It enabled feeding the rotor with 
> the seven-conductor cable that he had available 
> in lieu of buying new eight-wire cable. 
>  
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