On 2009-02-25, Milo milo@oil wrote:

before or after the transformer?

Add them onto the motor, before transformer.

My phase converter has this configuration, capacitors on each leg, and
it works well, both under load as well as without. I redid my math,
and in proportion to your idler's HP, you would need 80 uF, if you
were to use the same uF per HP as I do.

i