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Subject:Re: Air Flow Meter fix by capacitor? (F)
From:ThomasD. Hanlon
Date:Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:56:33 -0800

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"