[TheForge] sourcing (motor-start) capacitors

[Bruce .]

Seems to me this subject came up on this forum sometime in the past few
years.  This stuck me as a good tip I found on a lathe forum, so I'm
reposting it here.
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Bruce
NJ

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A Quick thought on Sourcing Capacitors.

BTW, I don't know the rule for sizing a capacitor, so I brought the bad one
in and took

I needed a capacitor for a "bad" motor. I live in a small rural town. ACE
hardware had none, the local electrical supply house had none. And no one
knew where to get one.

Fortunately the guy I talked to at ACE was a temporarily unemployed HVAC
tech
and he said that ALL heating/ventilation/air conditioning guys carry lots
of
capacitors in the trucks as that is a major cause for their being called
out.

So I went to the closest HVAC guy, talked to the guy in the office, and
walked off with the right capacitor for $10 or $15 cash. The cash part is
important.

BTW, I don't know the rule for sizing a capacitor, so I brought the bad one
in and took what the office guy said would work. I gathered there was some
flexibility in replacing caps.

In my town of about 6,000 folks there are at least 9 such folks running
about with capacitors in stock. The strange thing that with one exception
no one thought of that.

So b/4 you pay full-tilt-sucker-price + shipping and handling, buy local.

L.H.
Arkansas USA