12-05-2018, 10:30 PM
When I was a teenager we had a posh Electrolux cleaner with a spring driven cable coiler. It used to eat mains cables.
One day it showed the usual symptom and my dad wiggled the cable in the usual place and went on to wiggle it a bit more.
Only then did the badly wired plug report the fault in the way badly plugs do
I would replace the capacitor if the reading is other than the bleeder resistor value.
The value of modern bleeder resistors are pretty trust worthy and are very unlikely to be low if they are indeed faulty.
Replace the bleeder resistor if it is incorrect when measured separately.
One day it showed the usual symptom and my dad wiggled the cable in the usual place and went on to wiggle it a bit more.
Only then did the badly wired plug report the fault in the way badly plugs do
I would replace the capacitor if the reading is other than the bleeder resistor value.
The value of modern bleeder resistors are pretty trust worthy and are very unlikely to be low if they are indeed faulty.
Replace the bleeder resistor if it is incorrect when measured separately.
