[RFI] REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

David Eckhardt davearea51a at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 20:12:12 EDT 2018


Heaven knows.  I'm going to take it apart tomorrow and have a serious look
and RF sniff.

Dave - WØLEV

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Steve Kurtzman <stevew7sjk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is the motor starting relay hanging / arcing?
>
> Steve
> sparkie001 at pobox.com
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> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 4:37 PM David Eckhardt <davearea51a at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Dave - WØLEV*
>> *Just Let Darwin Work*
>> *Just Think*
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