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thanks. i appreciate your response.

the only reason i can think of is already included in the quote from hugh (hugh's home built): AND, you can run both if you like, a Capacitor and a battery, that way if a battery craps out, you can still get home on the cap :wink2: Hugh

if one wires BOTH battery AND capacitor, does it matter which comes first? or is the order irrelevant because they're parallel? any extra fuses involved?

that's good information, thanks. i'm leaning toward replacing the capacitor with a small lead battery. i'm tired of capacitors; i don't know enough about them. it'll still be kick start only so i don't need to worry about a huge battery box...

ah, that's good info. did you do an ebay search for caps?

no discernible bulge.

it was some sort of plastic sheathe which i gingerly removed to expose a shiny aluminum can devoid of info.

the capacitor from tcbros is JUST SHINY BLACK. there's a raised plus sign and a raised minus sign. and a mysterious blue dot. no numbers or anything informative.... hugh's handbuilt used to be down the street from me. but back then i had a harley..he's semi-retired, i guess...i might go ahead...

that was how my old triumphs were wired. my 'battery eliminator' doesn't have the spring; it's got a rubber lined bracket. the reg/rectifier is pretty modern looking. the capacitor has a 'blue dot' on the top... maybe that is something significant. if this acts up, i'm installing a battery.

the one from tcbros doesn't come with that spring. i remember that one from one of my old triumphs...

a new 'battery eliminator' capacitor arrived the other day from tcbros. the bike started right up and ran with power. but why did it fail to begin with? how susceptible are those capacitors to heat, vibration, variations in charge...etc? i'm going to start cobbling up a small battery box in case...

worked pretty good till now. if the capacitor turns out to be the culprit, i might put a battery in. but it was a pretty tidy set-up.

thanks, i will do that.

been running my 1973 xs for several months. started stumbling, had to pull over. it will kick start but no power. it has a battery eliminator (capacitor), a PMA, centrifugal spark advance. otherwise, it's pretty normal. here's my question: DOES A BATTERY ELIMINATOR (capacitor) FAIL? what does a...