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Subject:Re: Air Flow Meter fix by capacitor? (F)
From:David Beierl
Date:Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:22:02 -0500

Sorry Tom -- take them back.  You want a tantalum cap, they can order it
for you under p/n RSU11295961 @2.19

david

At 05:56 PM 2/4/2000 -0800, ThomasD. Hanlon wrote:
>Dave,
>
>The nice folks at Radio Shack sold to me two Electrolytic Capacitors
>(Radial Leads) (Catalog No. 272.1026.) $1.50, or so, each. One is for a
>friend if I get this thing to work properly, or the extra one is for the
>next time I try to fix it, if I don't, the first time.
>
>Packaging reads,
>
>"Radio Shack
>Radial Leads
>22 MFD
>Electrolytic
>Capacitor
>35WVDC maximum""
>
>Small items, bean-sized, captioned "Jamicon 85 degrees centigrade, 22
>"funny" "U"F35v."
>
>Yestiday I cudn't spel wenie. Now are I Juan?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Hanlon
>Palm Springs, CA
>84 Westfalia
>
>
>
>
>David Beierl wrote:
> >
> > At 08:12 AM 2/2/2000 -0800, ThomasD. Hanlon wrote:
> >
> > >Does the 22 MF capacitor "fix" work for "surging" in a Digijet system?
> >
> > It alleviates a particular problem that typically presents as loss of power
> > when driving, cured temporarily (maybe weeks) by shutting off the ignition
> > and turning it back on again.  Same on digifant or digijet.
> >
> > d
> > ps - since it's so close to Friday <g>  I'll just mention that if you
> > actually use a 22 megafarad cap you'll probably need a trailer to carry it
> > in, and your AFM will take weeks to respond to airflow changes -- but
> > you'll be able to use it to light your campsite <VBEG>.  We electronics
> > weenies say uF...
> > David Beierl - Providence, RI
> >   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> > '85 GL "Poor Relation"

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"