Hi all, old newbie her at electronics and wanting to learn a bit, got directed her looking for a safety capacitor for a Singer Sewing Machine. It has to be 45 years old.
Just fired it up today and gave it a little birthday of oil as it was a bit stiff.
Just got it adjusted correctly and sewing nicely then a horrible buzzing and burning smell.
Sure enough the safety capacitor had burnt out and after searching Farnell and other places got myself sorted with some spares.
There was one in the foot controller which was removed many years ago and it worked fine without it.
As a preliminary question would it be safe to operate without the safety Capacitor?
It is a Singer 514 and the safety capacitor is a PME271M622KR30. 22µF X2 275V
Many thanks
KingWhiskers
Just fired it up today and gave it a little birthday of oil as it was a bit stiff.
Just got it adjusted correctly and sewing nicely then a horrible buzzing and burning smell.
Sure enough the safety capacitor had burnt out and after searching Farnell and other places got myself sorted with some spares.
There was one in the foot controller which was removed many years ago and it worked fine without it.
As a preliminary question would it be safe to operate without the safety Capacitor?
It is a Singer 514 and the safety capacitor is a PME271M622KR30. 22µF X2 275V
Many thanks
KingWhiskers