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Re: New Coil - Barney was (half) right!

To: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>
Subject: Re: New Coil - Barney was (half) right!
From: Bill Schooler <schooler@erols.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 15:51:31 -0400
Barney Gaylord wrote:

(snip of major proportions)

> Now about that next question, .....  Charley, are you still out there in
> the hall?  How can a shade tree mechanic test a "condenser" for proper
> function without fancy laboratory instruments?
> 

Ooh - ooh!  I wanna guess!  How about putting an ohmmeter on the
condenser - one lead to the connector, the other to the case.  Meter
should intially peg over to zero, then gradually increase to reading
close to infinity.  (If I remember my tech school stuff, an ohmmeter
actually puts out a small voltage to obtain a reading.  Initially the
condenser appears as an "short", but as a charge builds up from the
ohmmeter's applied voltage, the condenser will change to the appearance
of an "open".)

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