Odd looking capacitor

My technical German is poor. But I think pflanzen is "plant." So I'm kind of thinking that phlanzenal means some kind of vegetable alkaloid (chemical thing.) Schulzart seems like "school-like care," maybe a better way is "protection?" I do know Ohne means "without," and kappe is cap. I don't know what IP6s is for.

So kind of reading between the lines (for someone so rusty at German) it's a warning to make sure you have protection against vegetable alkaloids if the cap is missing?

No idea.

Jon

** The cap is marked as an MKP type - so of polypropylene di-electric.

The voltage rating is 430 volts AC.

Can be used for many purposes including motor start/run and power factor correction.

IP64 = moisture proof and dust proof.

The rest of the Kraut speak is a brand name.

..... Phil

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These look similar, so you are probably on track. I'm accustomed to those small boxy MKPs.

Is the date code 25/05/21.... 1925/1921?? is that possible?

"TTman"

** That ain't a date code - f****it.

.... Phil

On a sunny day (Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:12:56 -0700 (PDT)) it happened " snipped-for-privacy@sushi.com" wrote in :

Looks like a bipolar cap used to get a third phase in electric motors. You will find those in many places.

470V AC / 20 uF

Just in addition to what has already been said: The capacitor has actually two "Schutzart" ratings (see

) One is IP64, and the second ("Ohne Kappe": without cap) looks like IP00. "Pflanzenöl" means vegetable oil.

herbert

Hmm, I didn't know they use vegetable oil in caps.

It could be one, that's how caps in German washing machines or dishwashers look like. But the photo is way too fuzzy and out of focus to say for sure.

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Apparently:

So I'm

Babelfish says the rest is "Pflanzenal schooltenderly without cap IP6s"

Not sure what "schooltenderly" means...

I'm guessing IP6s is a model number or something.... "IP6S - Industry Pak (IP) modules Manufacture: EMK Elektronic IP Module"

-- Les Cargill

It means taking care of things like you would in a school environment, I think. School is Schule, in German. I think they just dropped the 'e' in pasting it together with zart (light-fingered delicateness, I kind of imagine it as, since it is often used in that kind of context.) "School delicateness" is how I read it. Being protective, is how I interpreted it in that context, which then forced me to imagine that phlanzenal is some kind of plant alkaloid or other related chemical to watch out for.

Wish my German was better, here. It's not. Joerg would know, though.

Okay. As I said, I had no idea at all.

I get to exercise my German so rarely these days (used to listen to DeutscheWelle back when I had a shortwave set up), that I like to take every free opportunity to push myself a little when I get one like this.

Of course, none of this helps the OP much.

Jon

OK, next time I'll bring a point and shoot instead of using the cameraphone. ;-)

I guess you both have since it's "Usenet" :)

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John Devereux

I thought it was the French said that.

In this case it would have sufficed to turn the cap so the writing faces the camera phone and to hold a hand above the cap so the sheen from the ceiling fluorescents goes away :-)

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Yes, some people do.

Actually, I couldn't get rid of that shine. Once I was away from the overhead lights, there wasn't enough light to take a photograph. And using the built in flash would be worse than the overhead lights.