[RFI] REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

[Steve Kurtzman]

Is the motor starting relay hanging / arcing?

Steve
sparkie001 at pobox.com





On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 4:37 PM David Eckhardt <davearea51a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Generally air conditioners are pretty beneign.  However, ours quit and it
> turned out to be the motor starting capacitor resulting in the compressor
> not running.  The capacitor that replaced the original was roughly half the
> diameter of the original, but otherwise, ratings were the same.
>
> Since the replacement, it is generating a horrible amount of spikey RFI
> throughout HF.  ZZZzzzzzzit.......ZZzzzzzzit......ZZZzzzzit..... at about a
> 2 Hz rate for each pair of ZZZzzzzit's.  Best I can do.  Has anyone
> experienced this?  Has China found a nasty RFI generator to replace a lowly
> motor starting capacitor?
>
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