RE: [alfa] gtwe6 weird elec'l, continued

[dsedon@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

thanks dave,

i know what uf is, yust not sure that's what's on the part, due to deterioration...  ;~)

now, who/where can i get another one, new or used?  not sure places like ape would wanna be botherred w/such an item...

thanks,

doug s.
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<DWMARTIN@domain.elided> wrote:

>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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