[Spridgets] Condensers - Information you should know

[Peter Caldwell]

Martin,
         I forwarded your comments below to Jeff Schlemmer at 
Advanced Distributors. (he made a worthy presentation at the Midget 
50th at Elkhart Lake last year, and is a Spridget owner)

         Here is his response:
Peter, I'd be happy if you could post my reply to this thread...

Its not about length, its about microfarads and bleed-down rate, as 
well as internal shorts.  I just spent hours evaluating condensers 
for Moss, including Martin's version.  The tell-tale sign that a 
condenser will live a short life is limited (or no) bleed-down of 
stored voltage.  That is where a couple manufacturers of (orange, 
black, red, and green wire) condensers go wrong.  I personally chose 
to use orange wire on my condensers, and they are made properly, as 
are Martin's condensers, and a couple others.  There are at least 9 
versions in current production.
Jeff Schlemmer
Advanced Distributors



At 10:21 AM 5/15/2013, Martyn Ridley wrote:
>Promised I would update the list.  If you have an orange wire 
>condenser, think about it.  Yes, its more money - but who wants to 
>spend the afternoon waiting for the wrecker to tow you home.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Martyn,
>
>We dismantled orange wired ones from four different manufacturers, 
>they had between a metre & 1.5 metres of packing , O.E. Lucas & my 
>yellow ones have 3.0 metres.They are #6.95 each.
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Martin Jay
>Distributor Doctor Ltd
>01398 361 678
>
>www.distributordoctor.com
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