Mixing Business with Pleasure

I spent time in Pembroke Florida earlier in the week so I stopped in at my favorite place, Aficionados. After hanging out she said to me 'What do you know about electricity?' I said 'We'll what do got?' Then he came over and said a couple of dead smoke eaters.

This is an electrostatic precipitator for cleaning smoke out of a room where you want to clean the air but without introducing outside air. 

Here is the problem, or at least one of them. Burned off electrical connections. 

If you were to make the analogy to miles on a car, then these two units have a million miles on them. But fear not, with some work under the hood, we can make them go a couple of hundred thousand more. 

We got the fan running on unit #2 by connecting the neutral wire. It appears these units were menaced by an unqualified person who masquerades as an appliance technician. He or she removed the molex connector, thereby rendering the unit inoperable. 

The next time I am in Florida we will take the unit down so we can work on it on the bench. 

Then, we can all burn one, and still breathe air like it came in on the breeze, from a mountain, in Virginia.