What is an Air Conditioner Capacitor?
Although most Americans have been using air-conditioning for our entire lives, not many of us are aware of what components actually make these machines tick. The capacitor is a kind of unsung hero of air-conditioning units, holding onto energy and then delivering that power to the parts of the A/C unit that need it. In a way, you can think of the capacitor as similar to a battery in function. When you first turn on