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Bro, clearly Engineer Scotty from Star Trek lives there. It’s a pair of flux core capacitors. Near by should dilithium crystals connected in series, thus doubling the energy to Super charge his Tesla! Duh 🙄

They are keeping those capacitors charged up so when the condenser blows one in the middle of July, they will have a spare.

The plumber made an expensive mistake

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Look at this. Two unpolarised capacitors in parallel. Definitely power factor correction. On a different note, electricians have a good education and understanding about electrical circuits, but electrical engineers are completely educated with the design of incredibly complex circuits from a small 1 mile length of distribution network to satellites, power plants power supplies, your phone, etc. Remember, an electrical engineer doesn’t just have expertise troubleshoot or test a massive circuit, they design the entire thing from scratch. Three main fields of expertise straight from their education are physics, systems design AKA engineering and advanced mathematics.

Previous owner may have set that up to assist in kicking on a large air compressor, peak amp draw on startup may have been kicking the breaker so this was his solution…?

Surge suppression or balancing voltage

It’s a flux capacitor set up … duhhh 😅

Power surge absorption

I saw a set up like this for someone who had a well pump on a farm.

2 phase panel, capacitor connected to 2 phases with no output, backfeeding to panel. Possibly a hacky sort of load balancing or momentary UPS?

Keeps lights from dimming when something heavy turns on

I use them for spike and surge protection regularly.

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The HVAC guy probably left them there by mistake.

Well pump

Air Handlers

I may be wrong, but don't the appliances in an all electric home present a large inductance to be corrected? cook stove, oven, microwave, washing machine, dryer, water heater, etc? I'm not positive if the electric heating elements would add inductance, they're resistive, but unsure if the coils of wire in them would present any actual inductive load.

Wrong answer: it was wired by the same guy that makes those self-generating power, automobile spark plugs.

power factor correction

Power factor correction

Reducing peek inductive startup loads. Every time you start an appliance is a bonus cha ching for the power company.. peek power amperage pull is reduced buy pulling from the caps.

It's to charge phones faster

Possible poor man's surge protector?

Maybe the person thought it would act as a whole house surge protector.

That is for the reefer rocket. Remember when Dave Chapelle said 'I wonder how high I can get?" Then his buddy plugged something into the wall? The caps decrease the voltage sag, when" falcon heady" spools up for an intergalactic pass.

Fuse box from the delorian

It’s to help w power fluctuating on that circuit which is risky for electronics

A start to a rotary phase converter? Once connected to a three phase motor, after initial startup using 220 and a start cap the run caps balance out the phantom leg. Or at least that's how I built mine but I didn't have the Caps inside the panel lol. I used a secondary panel for start contact, e-stop, and start/run caps.

I think it's an attempt at surge protection. Capacitors are used to smooth signals. I don't think it's for power factoring as that would be completely useless in a residential application. The panel and capacitors don't look so old that this would benefit a communication system from the 1980's. Surge protection seems the most likely uuse.

Lagging power

Industrial electrical applications use large banks of capacitors to improve power factor from large industrial motors and other high inductive loads. Not sure how a residential application would benefit from this though.

Old school way of decreasing power draw.

Usually PFC caps would be attached directly to related equipment. But there are continuous run loads like small motors and transformers that might justify a power factor correction in order to reduce meter billing.

Illegal grow lights

Looks dangerous!

So you can go back to the future, duh!?😂

Yeah yeah power factor but that’s not the real reason. Most likely a sub panel far away from the source where flicker factor would be significant. The caps would act like a spring reducing flicker factor.

Power factor correction. The cheap dirty sloppy way.

What are the wires coming out of the back of the left capacitor connected to? Looks connected to something.

To correct the power factor.

To stop the lights from dimming when the AC refrigerator stars

Offset your energy consumption? Like how the electricity company gives you credit for installing solar panels that backfeed the grid….

I'm no electrician, but I have a idea of what it's for, it maybe for leveling the power when the electrical dips like when the power company switches power sources, I personally use a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for the same reason, but both would fail (run out of power) on long outages but UPS would last longer.

If I was to guess the guy is growing weed. If a pro has to ask ''what's it for'' it must be something fishy. Grow lights, fans, maybe a humidifier and other tools to create the perfect environment for a quick grow cycle.

Someone probably saw on the internet you can save on your power bill by improving your power factor, but that's only for industrial customers.

That's the more power hack..... 😂😂

It's used to take the peak out of a power surge. Also to stop fluctuations from energy drain

I've never seen that in a house before , but I have installed cap banks in large plants for PF correction.

Stick your tongue on it