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April 19, 2018 at 12:28 pm
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Thanks for the lesson in electronics. Good to know the caps
will work in parallel if needed. Not sure how I’ll wire up new caps
when the time comes. Last time on another old Johnson I
put an axial cap in the same place as the original retangular
condenser was mounted, but I had to solder on a wire to
one lead to make it long enough to hook up to the points
terminal. Then made up a couple of tin covers to hide them.
It all seemed a little "Mickey Mouse", but it worked.
quote Mumbles:
Not sure about the carb but with the caps hooked up in parallel, the uF rating would be the total of the two. For example, if you wire two 0.10 caps in parallel, it would be equivalent to a single 0.20 cap in the system. If one of the original caps is shorted internally, the second one would just be going along for a ride wired in like that. Even if they were both good and within limits, the points would suffer from arcing or pitting.
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