Mains interference capacitor?

Just a potential bit of interference to your radio.

That said, the filter does provide a bit of brush spark suppression too.

If you omit it, Kenwood will mainly cause RF interference to mains AM radios at home and in nearby surroundings. You may have already experienced this irritation during the period leading up to its failure. Renew it with a 1nF (0.1uF) 250VAC working (or 600Volt DC working) metallised polypro cap, in series with a 120ohm 1/2watt resistor. This is likely to be the switch on/off suppressor and not a motor spark suppressor. Try Maplins for bits. Jim

Or get one of their all-in-one jobbies

No it isn't -- a snubber network wouldn't fail in the way the OP described.

Isn't 1nF .001uF?

Maybe that capacitor is for power factor correction and does it's bit to save the Earths dwindling resources.

Mea culpa. Not a 1nF. 0.1uF = 100nF Jim

As has been said, it should work ok but may interfere with radio, tv, other electronics, and the motor &/or switch may not last as long.

Nowadays youre supposed to use an X rated capacitor for putting across mains. These have some self healing ability, so have much better long term reliability than any old cap. Note that 250v caps will be totally unsuitable, the absolute minimum you can get away with on mains is

NT

A visit from John Prescott :-)

Oh and a bit of snow on the telly, and a fizz on the radio, when its running

When in doubt, rip it out.. Go fer it.

Not at 0.,1uF it isn;t.

Need several uF to do any good.

Provbaly use more resources makingte capacitor :=-)

Lots of scrap mains powered equipment will have suitable capacitors on em- actual size is not critical - and a pair of side cutters and a screwdriver down the council dump usually nets a few useful items.

Since all it does is reduce interference, have you actually tried running it with the cap removed?

There may be something more serious going on. Hope not.

I know :-)

The link points to an all-in-one device and then goes on to describe it as a 100 uf resistor and a 0.1 micro farad capacitor.

Now I know what a 0.1 micro farad capacitor is, but what is a 100 uf resistor?

A quick google turned nothing up.

Dave

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0000 (UTC),it is alleged that Dave spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:

The product description was written by the same clueless one who 'designed' their unusable website I think. Pity, Maplin used to be good ~10 years ago:(. From memory I believe it's actually a 100 ohm resistor.

Do one hundred lines of....

milli micro nano, milli micro nano, milli micro nano,

etc Someone

In message , somebody writes

Oops, just read it properly, 100uf *resistor*. Me Bad.

Me do 100 lines of....

me bad me bad me bad

:-( Someone

Weaselreply: it would improve the pf a tiny little bit :)

NT

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