Help needed identifying capacitor

[Benjy]

Hi can anybody shed some light on this capacitor please. It it part of a 240v mincing machine but has 5 wires. 2 blue, 2 black and a clear shielded earth. The motor still ran after this burnt out. Thanks in advance. Ben

[budm]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

X/Y safety Capacitor module: 3 capacitors in one body, one 0.15uF, and two 2.7nF( 0.0027uF), they are morel likely to be line filter to keep the noise from injecting back into the power line. You need to see how it is connected in the circuit.

[Benjy]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

Fantastic many thanks. Any idea where I could get one? Or could I use three seperate replacements? Ben

[budm]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

Yes you can use 3 caps, but you need to trace out how it is connected in the circuit.

[budm]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

This what I believe how they are inside (as you can see the symbol on the right end for the two caps inside) and how they are connected in the chassis.

[Benjy]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

Brill. But with the capacitor being blown how do I know which wire relates to which value capacitor? I will take a picture of the internals this weekend and see if you are able to help further. Hopefully it will work again some day! Thanks again for your help so far

[budm]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

As you can see in the picture post 5, the left side of the body is the 0.15uF cap as I shown with the red line, the right side of the body are the two cap connected in series and has the wire attached between the two junction.
Take the pictures of each end of the cap to show how the wires exit the body of the cap.

[Benjy]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

Thanks ever so much budm. So theoretically to operate it would only need the blues and blacks joined although giving interference

[Benjy]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

And all 5 wires exit from the same end

[budm]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

Can I see the picture of that end?

[Benjy]

Re: Help needed identifying capacitor

Sure. I'll send one tomorrow. Thanks again for your support