Chris wrote in message ...
Jeff:

One last thing regarding discharging the capacitor - it looks like the
wires run straight into these 2 black boots located on the bottom of the
capacitor.

Do I simply remove these boots to access the capacitor's contacts? Can you
provide any more detail on discharging the capacitor?

G'day,

We use needle nose pliers to discharge the cap if the wires are
coated/covered....stick them in to the bottom of the cap, just need to
touch both sides ( metal at the bottom where the wires are ) at the
same time.

jeff.
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