Originally Posted By: Lovnlivin
Thanks guys, and I'm familiar with the start and run capacitors and the charge they can hold, from a RV AC unit that I had to replace the capacitor on, and was forewarned before messing with it!

With this one being a 440V capacitor (240V pump) I wasn't about to take any chances! And I read that even crossing the terminals with a screwdriver could cause it to explode shocked . And please don't get the impression I know what I'm talking about with this stuff, because I don't! I'm just a research junkie trying to learn smile .

I have a local Grainger that will have a new capacitor for me tomorrow if needed, after checking the capacitance in my old one.

My hope is that mine is bad (for a $12 fix!).


This is true. When you get up into the bigger stuff it can get ugly.

"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.