Birken Vogt
Charter Member
If it has a capacitor, it does not have a voltage regulator. Capacitors are cheap but usually if one goes, it is lights out completely. We shall see I guess.
Not a black plastic motor start capacitor. Maybe a metal can motor RUN capacitor with 70 uF/microfarads, or two in SERIES of 140 each will work also, if you can't find one with close to that voltage rating. 140 would be rare I guess, you could do series parallel, but just get the 70 with the highest volt rating you can find.
edit: Italfarad 70040 is what that is supposed to say for the model, they are available, but I'd try what I had that's close, then get the genuine if you feel like it. The farad rating is what matters, the voltage rating is a measure of how long it will last, roughly.
Thanks. Good tips! I will follow that. We don't have much need for it. Really the hardest draw on it would be a welder every so few weeks and even that is such a short term use. I will check out the frequency on the outlet from time to time but honestly its pretty easy to tell the cap is going and the frequency is off running just about anything lol. The grinder used to spin so crappy at 70V lol - worked but slow. This machine was new to me so at first I thought it was just so weak hahaI've probably replaced five caps on truck APU's over the past calendar year for either no output power, or only one very low output. Yours' fell right in line with my experiences but do remember to keep a check on your frequency and try not to run overloaded. For some reason when these little sets are run with just a bit too much on them, that cap fails on short order. Probably in truck usage a combination of HVAC, microwave oven, refrigerator, and hot plate, or coffee maker running at the same time. Poor little generator set only knows output as much as it can as they don't use a voltage regulator.....