I thought this was interesting:
Got a really old 15 ton carrier split thats been jack legged to the max.

COmpressor contactor has a 240 volt coil.
Someone wired in a 4mfd 440volt capacitor to the coil.
Its paralleled across the coil.

Also... the 240 being applied to the coil also
powers the 3 condenser fans (240 volt, single phase)

Anyone ever see a capacitor wired across a contactor before?
If so... any idea what it supposed to do?
I'm guessing its to keep the contactor from bouncing/jumping since they got the control voltage all
jumbled up with load voltage to the condenser fans.