Re: Checking an oscillating fan motor



Thanks for the recommendation. I plan to do that in the next few days....

I have an oscillating fan that quit working after getting knocked over one too many times (at least that's how it looks).

The first test was to check the off/low/medium/high switch. It appears that there is continuity through that; touched the switch contacts only.

Next, I replaced the capacitor with an exact duplicate. No success. The cap is a CBB61 two wire 3uF 250V foot mount.

What is a good capacitor tester?

I tried the shaft. It turns smoothly but I lubricated it anyway. Likewise the oscillating feature.

The fan is an older...

Re: Capacitors for an Asus Echo Board



Thank you for the advice. All very good. I normally do take pictures of anything I work on (do it for a living as a tech writer). The information on the stripes is also very good since that tells me they are polarized.

I planned to order from badcaps.

I am not that experienced, but I am very patient and very, very careful (an eight hour job takes me twenty four.

Thanks again for the advice.

Neal Lewis...

My wife's Compaq Presario S5000V P8656P has a batch of bad capacitors which I need to replace.

Normally the P8656P has a Trigem Glendale board (all serial numbers starting with KR or CH. However, if the serial number starts with MX (as hers does) then the board is an Asus Echo P4G533 board with the Award bios.

HP's web page: [url]http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph07845&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en[/url], tells about this and gives the layout and some photos.

I am new to this and need to have some help figuring out what to order....

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

And if you wouldn't mind to keep this thread \"clean\" let's try to keep the the chitchat (i.e. even the welcome to the board replies) to a minimum or this thread may get to 100 pages fast :lo

Not a problem.

I have two computers with bad capacitors. One is an HP, the other one a Compaq. Both of them have Asus boards.

The most important one right now is the Compaq. It has an Asus Echo P4G533 board. It is most important because my wife is needing to use it, and I need to fix...