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Originally Posted by woodiewagon46
If you are interested, there is a fairly detailed article on condensers in the 2014 September/October issue of the V-8 Times.It covers the values of Ford condensers from 1928 thru 1953.
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This article by Frank Scheidt is a pretty good one to read. He covers all the bases of testing including the fact that a person needs to know the inductance value of the coil that is in the mix where there is no value available from Ford. Skip Haney may not know the inductance value of his coils after overhaul with new materials either. It's not something a lot of people think about. The conclusion that Frank and a friend with a background in electronics came to was that a good overall condenser value for the original design early V8s would be 0.25 mfd. He admitted though that he was going to continue testing on that value and see how it goes. This was in late 2014. I wonder how his testing has done so far. They tested with very low value to very high value capacitors and it's interesting some of the descriptions about how that went.