Recent content by Tiger t

I’ve managed to find where I bought the capacitors from, complete with a reference ID, so hopefully I might be able to find out what they were when I call them on Monday.

Hi Dave, thank you for your reply. I will measure them and post the sizes. I have been using my lathe with this converter for twenty years. A few years back I changed the capacitors ( pity I didn’t keep the receipt ) because the converter stopped working. The other day I was using my lathe, but...

I have a 3hp three phase motor in my lathe. I run this on a rotary phase converter, but unfortunately two start/run capacitors have burnt out and melted in the converter. One capacitor still has the identification marks visible, but the other one ( slightly smaller in size ) has melted and...