About 5 years ( or ) more ago I had recap this line conditioner because it would rapidly relay clicking so that was the reason for having to recap the board
The other thing it was doing every time the air conditioner would turn ON it would click this started about 2 weeks ago
We have a lot of voltage dipping where I live ( 110 to 126 volts ac ) so I was not surprised that it was doing this but I have two more of units that were not doing this all time but i I did not give it much thought but maybe I should have but it is a pain in the butt to work on this unit
Now today it did the same exact thing again so this same cap is bad again
So I put a new cap in again and it stopped it again from relay chattering
As you can see in the picture the of the cap that I had used before ( PW )
The new cap ESR reading was 0.06 about twice the amount of a new cap ( LXV ) automotive grade capacitor
It also has another capacitor on this board but it was not bad 220uf@50 volts ( KZE )
One note about this line conditioner it about 25 years old now
The other thing it was doing every time the air conditioner would turn ON it would click this started about 2 weeks ago
We have a lot of voltage dipping where I live ( 110 to 126 volts ac ) so I was not surprised that it was doing this but I have two more of units that were not doing this all time but i I did not give it much thought but maybe I should have but it is a pain in the butt to work on this unit
Now today it did the same exact thing again so this same cap is bad again
So I put a new cap in again and it stopped it again from relay chattering
As you can see in the picture the of the cap that I had used before ( PW )
The new cap ESR reading was 0.06 about twice the amount of a new cap ( LXV ) automotive grade capacitor
It also has another capacitor on this board but it was not bad 220uf@50 volts ( KZE )
One note about this line conditioner it about 25 years old now
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