Bob, while the change of the capacitor is easy and cheap to do you still have the wrong modelling light base and in case the fan fails it is not longer available as spare, so you might need to convert to the recent design later. I´m afraid you're right, F2 is 1600J also, there are plenty of pre owned 230V / 3200Ws units available, probably better to get one of those. Cheers, Ulf