02-14-2014, 03:54 PM
Stator and rotor plates never touch from one end of rotation to the other.
Otherwise, you have a shorted component, not a capacitor.
On older var caps you had to carefully make sure bent plates were straightened. New types have a "bar/bridge" of insulating material like phenolic holding the "long" ends of the rotor plates in place.
Chuck
Otherwise, you have a shorted component, not a capacitor.
On older var caps you had to carefully make sure bent plates were straightened. New types have a "bar/bridge" of insulating material like phenolic holding the "long" ends of the rotor plates in place.
Chuck
Chuck Schwark,
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