[alfa] gtwe6 weird elec'l, continued

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Doug,
I beleive that that the electric device on back of the alternator is a "capacitor".
I replaced the alternator on my 87 Spider last fall (from IAP) and no, the capacitor didn't come with - I had to transfer old capacitor to new alternator.  That perturbed me a bit - I thought I ought to get a new one with the rebuilt alternator.
Capacitors hold an electric charge - exactly their function w.r.t the operation of the alternator I do not know.
I can explain "uf" - it is abbreviation for "micro farads".  Farads (named for physicist Michael Farady) is the unit of measurement for capacitance.  One whole farad is a huge amount so the capacitance of commonly used capacitors are measured in "one-millionth farad", aka "micro farad", with lower case Greek letter "mu" as abbreviation for "micro", the Greek letter "mu" looks sorta like a "u", so "u" is commonly used.  Hence, "uf" = "micro farads".
Dave Martin
Endwell, NY
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