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PrivatePilot
Jun 29, 2012Explorer
Good news, another option to the usual SPP6 / SPP6E cap.
Fwiw, my earlier recommendation of the Chinese knockoff SPP6 capacitor that I found on eBay is recinded - we boondocked last night, running AC on generators, and after a half hour or so the generators suddenly overloaded and shut down.
No amount of fiddling could get the AC to restart without overloading the gennies....even 20 minutes later when the head pressure should have dropped.
I wondered if it was the new start cap, so I went up on the roof (a wonderful experience in the dark, humidity, light rain, and threatening thunder storm) and removed the new cap.
Sure enough the AC started right up afterwards so long as the gennies were not in Eco mode.
I guess the cheap knockoff cap was worth what I paid for it.
Fwiw, my earlier recommendation of the Chinese knockoff SPP6 capacitor that I found on eBay is recinded - we boondocked last night, running AC on generators, and after a half hour or so the generators suddenly overloaded and shut down.
No amount of fiddling could get the AC to restart without overloading the gennies....even 20 minutes later when the head pressure should have dropped.
I wondered if it was the new start cap, so I went up on the roof (a wonderful experience in the dark, humidity, light rain, and threatening thunder storm) and removed the new cap.
Sure enough the AC started right up afterwards so long as the gennies were not in Eco mode.
I guess the cheap knockoff cap was worth what I paid for it.
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