- Oct 3, 2007
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I'm working on building a small waste oil burner to experiment with-its going to be a siphon type that utilizes compressed air to atomize the fuel through a nozzle. I bought a small compressor from a surplus house and it came with a wiring diagram showing two black wires (to 120V), one green wire (ground), and two blue wires which go to a capacitor which was included. Here is the motor:
Here is the capacitor:
You can see in the second picture that there are two contacts each with two prongs. I'm assuming that one blue wire goes to one set of contacts and the other goes to the other set? I just don't want to hook this thing up backwards because I'm afraid of blowing up the capacitor, motor, or both. Also, do I have to be careful handling the capacitor-I know that they can store quite a bit of power, but I don't know if this one is "full" or not. Any ideas?
Here is the capacitor:
You can see in the second picture that there are two contacts each with two prongs. I'm assuming that one blue wire goes to one set of contacts and the other goes to the other set? I just don't want to hook this thing up backwards because I'm afraid of blowing up the capacitor, motor, or both. Also, do I have to be careful handling the capacitor-I know that they can store quite a bit of power, but I don't know if this one is "full" or not. Any ideas?