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rockwind1
Explorer II
Apr 30, 2014

hard start capacitor supco spp6E or spp6 ac unit revisited

I am going to do this mod on my ac's and i have read a ton of different forum discussions. but most are from 2-5 years ago and there are still some unanswered questions. hoping someone on here has g...
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MrWizard
Moderator
Apr 30, 2014
Your meter can't read the real startup load, it's not fast enough
If you look on the compressor, very likely you will see an LRA of about 50 amps
Lock Rotor Amps, this is the true high pressure restart value

It's unlikely you will see much drop off the startup load on your meter
What you will notice is less lugging of the generator when the compressor starts

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