> David wrote: > > Oh wise list members. Perhaps one of you can identify an > electronic component for me. > > Everything looks good inside except, as shown in the > attached photograph, a small dull red pill apparently > overheated. It is in line from the recently blown fuse to a > transformer. It is attached in the circuit via a plastic block > of four set screws that clamp rather than solder the wires > together and all was covered by a plastic sheath. When I took > out the pill it fell apart. It is marked R270 and below that, CM > 56. Does anyone know what this item might be?
Almost certain that is a capacitor. The tan-ish/yellow-ish ones look much more like an MOV. Another BIG clue is how it's wired. You said "in line with the fuse and transformer". Series? Parallel? Attached is a quick sketch showing the difference. R270 could mean a 27 pico farad, 15% capacitor. I can't come up with a good reason why there would be one before the transformer... If it's an MOV (which I expect it is NOT), it will have to be in parallel. -- Philip -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: series-parallel.png Type: image/png Size: 8166 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20141206/e3a33214/attachment.png> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
