Re: [RE-wrenches] Electrolytic Caps vs. Thin Film Caps

2012-01-14 Thread Exeltech
Hello Ryan, I can only speculate as to why the "electrolytic capacitors are bad" rumor persists. There are any number of possibilities, such as those I'm about to list below. It likely is combinations of or even all of these... Possibility #1: 40 years ago, the best electrolytic caps didn't l

Re: [RE-wrenches] Request for Gennie Recommendation

2012-01-14 Thread Ray Walters
I have only limited experience with the GIllette, but I was impressed with the specs on that 15 Kw unit, it was a water cooled 4 cyl running at 1800 rpm, just what your customer needs, but probably way more than they want to spend. Can you add more PV to reduce the generator run time? Ray On

Re: [RE-wrenches] Request for Gennie Recommendation

2012-01-14 Thread Allan Sindelar
Thank you for the good responses. Here's what I have learned so far: Re Onan: as I had mentioned in my original post, "The 6 year old system has worn out two Onan residential standby generators."  This was before our initial visit. Both generators were air-cooled 3600