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RE: [TR] Electric troubleshooting help

To: Greg Perry <rgperry@earthlink.net>,
Subject: RE: [TR] Electric troubleshooting help
From: pethier@comcast.net
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:23:07 +0000
From: Greg Perry <rgperry@earthlink.net>
> Hello,
> 
> One can put a capacitor inline to smooth out the voltage fluctuations.  If my 
> memory serves me correctly, I used two 2,000 microFarad capacitors in 
>parallel 
> for a total of 4,000 microFarads.  This was probably overkill, but was 
>available 
> for the job at hand.

Not inline.  Capacitors for filtering go from hot to ground.  A "PI" filter 
works well:  Capacitor to ground, then an inline coil, then another capacitor 
to ground.
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