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    Help hooking a Power line EMI filter to my 2hp Teco VFD 220 volt ac

    Its actually a brand new Leeson motor rated for VFD .. I got Lutz Drive flex wire for that end, thought id also throw some ferrite chokes on the leads coming out of VFD that go to motor side Your thoughts? Thanks for you answer on the above, thats awesome
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    Help hooking a Power line EMI filter to my 2hp Teco VFD 220 volt ac

    Just making sure I hook this up right, im using 220 ac volts .. two power one ground from my main panel in my shop I assume P and N are the positive line in's from the my main feed line/panel and E is the earth ground from same ? Are P1 .. N1 and E the lines that then go into power my VFD drive ?
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    Help me wire up my small 110AC case fan, schematic included

    I want to hook this up for continuous use, I will just unplug when needed, I want to hook to 110 AC There is one of each color wire, Red, Blue, Black, Yellow ... as pictured below Thanks for any help
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    Well before you posted I ordered this: http://www.packardonline.com/showItemDetail.aspx?Item_Id=10038151&burl=index.aspx?keyword%3dPRCF20 Says oil filled and made in USA ... this any good?
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    Hey thanks Eddie for all your help by the way Pittsburgh Pa
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    I am finding its very hard to find an oil filled cap with that's round and close to my dimensions (3" x 1-1/2")... all I seem to find are oval and they wont fit under my cap covers
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    I have a PM45M mill (rf45 clone) looks like a clone of yours Its not that there is a thing wrong with the mill right now, its got a brand new motor in it, like I said they usually last about a year, I just wanted to get ahead of the caps on this one, ive been using the mill every day since I...
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    Oh well I am thinking if you don't replace this 20 mf cap as soon as it starts to go it prolly is the culprit ... they are covered and its tough to really know when it goes with this motor, my thoughts are it goes bad and I just don't know it right away and it stresses out the windings and when...
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    The 20 uf one is the one that blows up all the time, well like once a year and the other one looks fine, ive replaced both in the past but the motor still only runs slow and needs a kick to get it up to full speed ... that's when I just replace the motors, so I am guessing when that 20 uf blows...
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    I don't think either of these are oil filled, ive replaced both before and they look and feel exactly the same weight. The pictures come up fine on my end
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    Motor run and start capacitors, need suggestion on buying new ones

    I need some help on what brand to buy in these, I just want some good ones to have on hand in case I blow these. I will probably just put the new ones in the day I get them because I have had problems with these Chinese capacitors blowing up and I think they must mess up the windings/coils in...
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    Help Me/ hook up a forward-stop-reverse motor cont switch on a 220volt mill machine

    Yes he checked the ohms, he did did it pretty fast but I saw him take several tests with it and had one of the leads removed off the start and the run cap at some point when testing Ohh sorry I read this wrong I thought you meant the switch, I dont know the cap answer I was in and out of shop
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    Help Me/ hook up a forward-stop-reverse motor cont switch on a 220volt mill machine

    "If the hand drawn schematic is correct I wonder if it was harder to flick start the motor one way over the other." John: No its the exact same as far as starting, the only effect in this is when using different gears on the machine, pick a low speed gear, which uses alot less torque on the...
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    Help Me/ hook up a forward-stop-reverse motor cont switch on a 220volt mill machine

    Ok, I will rephrase: The centrifugal switch is not creating friction on the switch at stop/initial start-up The switch on my model is not depressing the contacts to allow the Start cap to be in the circuit The run cap gets the machine going after I flick the spindle with high whine...
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    Help Me/ hook up a forward-stop-reverse motor cont switch on a 220volt mill machine

    I had an electrical engineer come over and hook this up, it now works as before, he did note that the centrifugal switch never allows the start capacitor to work kick in, which is why I had to give the spindle a flick to get it to spin at full speed most of the time even before the switch went...
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