SBaer wrote:

Hi

This information might help people looking for large capacitors to
make rotary phase convertors. I went to the city dump yesterday and
on top of finding a working chainsaw and picking up five pounds of
copper I found six or seven large electrolitic capacitors. There was
a whole pile of discarded air conditioners and each of the large ones
had a capacitor or two.

Electrolytic capacitors cannot be used in a phase converter. (You
probably knew
that.) Motor run capacitors are what is needed for that.

Unfortunately, most dumps don't let you take anything OUT!

Jon