(ET) Capacitors, charging, and stuff

[Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

Got in touch with Jim, all is well. Need to pick up a bunch of things to 
restock my shed there.

I did swap in a spare capacitor I had. The connectors to the capacitor 
were junky, so I replaced them, put the new cap in, and fired up the 
charger.

Power factor went from 30% to 90%, now down to 74% at 2.3a AC current 
draw (which is fine). Old capacitor was bulged on the top. Blah.

Put away the tiller, got out the 36 volt pressure washer and ran a pack 
down washing my rugs on the clothes line. The E12 motor is perfect for 
running a 2500psi pressure pump, and it hardly gets warm after an hour 
of solid use.

If you have an old gas powered washer dump the motor, put an E12 or E15 
motor on it, and rock.