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  • KitDeMadera@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your houses equivalent of a poop knife.
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    1 year ago

    You got the order right, but “absorb the power surge” sounds off. The motor isn’t creating a power surge that the capacitor absorbs. The motor has peak draw at startup and the capacitor is there to provide that power.

    I expect that somewhere like the Soviet union may have had a less reliable electric grid, the capacitor was probably needed to start the motor. But now a modern stable grid can provide that power just fine.