Hi all
Maybe this is a curious coincidence, but I just had a 2nd start capacitor fail in a month. The first was on my 17" Shop Fox band saw. Today it was on my 8" Shop Fox parallelogram jointer. The band saw capacitor leaked goo all over. The jointer capacitor just got really hot and everything stopped. It tried to get the motor up to speed after cooling off, but no dice.
Does anybody have an insight about why these are failing? I'm not asking for a discussion about the evils of Asian machines, rather wondering if something in my electricity delivery might be to blame.