Barney Gaylord wrote:
(snip of major proportions)
> Now about that next question, ..... Charley, are you still out there in
> the hall? How can a shade tree mechanic test a "condenser" for proper
> function without fancy laboratory instruments?
>
Ooh - ooh! I wanna guess! How about putting an ohmmeter on the
condenser - one lead to the connector, the other to the case. Meter
should intially peg over to zero, then gradually increase to reading
close to infinity. (If I remember my tech school stuff, an ohmmeter
actually puts out a small voltage to obtain a reading. Initially the
condenser appears as an "short", but as a charge builds up from the
ohmmeter's applied voltage, the condenser will change to the appearance
of an "open".)
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