Frankly.. unless your in a third world country,
neither cap does anything BUT start the motor..
in fact it does not even that.. it only determines the direction of which way the rotor turns by increasing one phase and reducing the other on startup.
Once the motor is running, a universal motor is fine w/o caps.
And that's the whole point.. you flipepd the rotor under power... deciding what direction it should turn..
it should turn that direction from then on as long as it gets powered by AC just fine..
Your analogue MM charges and discharges the cap you tested.
and depending on what setting you used it on (volts? Ohms? what?)
what you observed seems to be logical.
needle goes up
(cap was charged you read a voltage for as long as the cap is charged,
then goes down again)
the low voltage the MM uses charges the cap in reverse direction and as soon as you flip leads.. same thing just opposite direction happens.
(just as a working cap would do)
In resistance mode though the resistance should rise when the cap is charged not drop IIRC (jeez I'm getting old.. I can't remember capacitances raises or lowers resistance in foil caps?).
Anyways... continuity must never happen!
So if you ever read 0 Ohms between it's terminals (or something close by)
said cap is shortened out and must be replaced with a similar size and capacitance cap.
(the capacitance is more important than the voltage really... you can replace it with any voltage above 240V but the capacitance should be identical to what the original was, since that adjusts the force of the kick the motor will get... too low and nothing happens, too big and it'll skip on the commutator and might be running in reverse by accident)
Judging by the size, I'd say both are starter caps..
filter caps are generally a LOT smaller even for motors that size
(the filter cap on my 220V 1.6kW universal motor [ leaf blower ] is the size of a penny
the starter is about the size of a 9V block battery (just round)
the washing machine has a single CBB60 like yours [IIRC 25µF 450V] as a starter )
IDK without looking in a manual (which I don't have) but since a cap like that is about 5-8 bucks each.. replace both to be on the safe side anyways.
chances are if one's toast the other one might not see the next winter anyways.
'sid
neither cap does anything BUT start the motor..
in fact it does not even that.. it only determines the direction of which way the rotor turns by increasing one phase and reducing the other on startup.
Once the motor is running, a universal motor is fine w/o caps.
And that's the whole point.. you flipepd the rotor under power... deciding what direction it should turn..
it should turn that direction from then on as long as it gets powered by AC just fine..
Your analogue MM charges and discharges the cap you tested.
and depending on what setting you used it on (volts? Ohms? what?)
what you observed seems to be logical.
needle goes up
(cap was charged you read a voltage for as long as the cap is charged,
then goes down again)
the low voltage the MM uses charges the cap in reverse direction and as soon as you flip leads.. same thing just opposite direction happens.
(just as a working cap would do)
In resistance mode though the resistance should rise when the cap is charged not drop IIRC (jeez I'm getting old.. I can't remember capacitances raises or lowers resistance in foil caps?).
Anyways... continuity must never happen!
So if you ever read 0 Ohms between it's terminals (or something close by)
said cap is shortened out and must be replaced with a similar size and capacitance cap.
(the capacitance is more important than the voltage really... you can replace it with any voltage above 240V but the capacitance should be identical to what the original was, since that adjusts the force of the kick the motor will get... too low and nothing happens, too big and it'll skip on the commutator and might be running in reverse by accident)
Judging by the size, I'd say both are starter caps..
filter caps are generally a LOT smaller even for motors that size
(the filter cap on my 220V 1.6kW universal motor [ leaf blower ] is the size of a penny
the starter is about the size of a 9V block battery (just round)
the washing machine has a single CBB60 like yours [IIRC 25µF 450V] as a starter )
IDK without looking in a manual (which I don't have) but since a cap like that is about 5-8 bucks each.. replace both to be on the safe side anyways.
chances are if one's toast the other one might not see the next winter anyways.
'sid
