Re: Open frame motor with 6 wires?

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

It sounds like you may be missing a run capicitor.. Just a
thought.. 

Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Paul Kidwell by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tmb-at-ieee-dot-org>
> 
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I've come across an open frame motor and I'm having a bit
> of trouble figuring
> out how to hook it up. It's a 1/3 HP, 1725 RPM motor with
> the following wires
> coming out of it:
> 
> Green (goes to frame ground, so I got this one :)
> 
> Red (which has continuity to )
> Black
> 
> blue (which goes through some sort of switch, and has
> continuity to )
> white (and)
> yellow
> 
> The red and black seem to be one winding, if I only had 2
> outer windings I'd
> guess that they were the start winding going through that
> switch (centrifugal
> start switch I think) My problem is that there seem to be
> 2 wires (yellow and
> white) on the other end of the winding.
> 
> Has anybody any idea how this motor is connected?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 


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