How To Wire Most Motors For Shop Tools and DIY Projects: 031
I show how to wire several different types of motors and explain some of the important components.
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1. AC single phase 1/4 Blower Motor (brushless) induction motor
2. AC single phase Washing machine motor (1/2 hp and 3/4 hp) induction motor (brushless)
3. AC single phase 3 hp (brushless) induction motor
4. AC/DC Motor with brushes "universal motors"
I also show how to figure out which winding is the start winding.
The other parts of this series are here.
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I must say that I have never viewed a more likeable teacher that takes the time to explain things in a language that I can understand. Your interactions with your family inspires me to do the same. Thank you! Next stop, your Patreon page.
You are just saying that because he is black
I’m slower than the rest of the kids, so I would’ve appreciated a little more depth to what exactly the wiring was and where you hooked the positive and neutral to. Also the the feed vs the run wiring. A drawing explanation with some time taken to explain it all would have really helped because of the nature of twisting wires with similar colors. (Nothing can be done about that). I wish you were my neighbor so I could learn from you. I am sooo similar to you with the repurposing of parts for making useful masterpieces. However, you have obtained much more proficiency with motors and gears than I ever could! You are Awesome dude. Exceptional +1.
Just a tip, except for rare occasions the polarity of the input power to a motor doesn't matter at all, it just swaps the direction of rotation.
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Diagrams are a great idea.
I'm in my second year apprenticeship for Millwright, or Maintenance Mechanic. Your videos honestly helped me understand motors better than any textbook in college. Thank you dude. Keep it up. We owe you a debt of gratitude for your time and effort.
wth doez a millwright do, pleaeaze keep ur explanation simple. All sorts uv industrial machines' maintenance? E.g. upkeep of whatever we would find in a machine shop¿??!
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I’ve spent the past 3 years learning electric and motor control, I remember before I started I would watch this video and others and say to my self man I wish I knew what he knew. 3 years later I smile and say I finally get it .... :)
Life saver. Got two washer mashine motors running for some proyects thanks to you. Thums up.
Great video Mr Jeremy. I appreciate how clearly and concisely you explain and demonstrate how the various motors work. I enjoyed the real life examples. I look forward to checking out more of your videos.
This guy always amazes me on how developers ingenious ways to use electric motors from everything. This my second time I watched his videos, and he is a cool guy.
Thank you for your very informative videos. You take the time to explain things well. You are a great teacher, I appreciate your efforts and will be coming back for more education.
I love watching your videos. You have the ability to explain things at a level that average people can understand, without making the viewer feel talked-down to. Also, your passion comes through, and it's contagious. Nicely done.
This brings greatly simplifies things. I guess what I'm saying it brings an awareness of what I need to study more. Thank you. It's been to many years since my A and C school when I was in the Navy.
Thank you for instilling confidence. I feeling more comfortable diagnosing and wiring motors.
Thank you for putting out the videos you publish. They're always informative and very well put together, I know I speak for alot of people when I say, thank you & keep up the great work 👍
Yep, speaking for me for sure!
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Thanks for taking the time to show this information. You are very good instructor.
Jeremy - My second opportunity to see one of your videos. Excellent. If you are not a teacher, you are one naturally. You teach more in a few minutes than most do in hours. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for such a helpful guide to reusing old motors! I doubt I ever would have figured all of this out on my own. Love the channel, your presentations are so helpful. You're awesome!
Jeremy Your videos are great! I never liked playing with electricity but with your help I have fixed several projects. Keep up the good work. And thank you.
This has taught me so much, so quickly. Excellent stuff Sir! Thanks!
Learned more in five mins watching you then two years watching someone else working. Thank you.
My father used to beet me
I appreciate you being so plain and understandable. This is practical knowledge for us ignorant ones.
Jeremy, thanks so much for the very practical advice & project ideas. I've built a few items using parts from washers, dryers, garage door hardware & whatever else was laying around. Built a benchtop polisher/grinder, Christmas carousels (with rotating 120 ac power) & other fun stuff. Your imagination is the only limit. Thanks again. Mikey
I'm glad that I found your channel. You're really good at explaing how to do things that people need to know.
Thanks, 2nd time i've watched this. I have an electronics engineering degree, but that was 20 years ago. It's nice to cut to the chase for a specific project, and not crack several old books. Keep it up!
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Clear concise videos explaining multi winding AC brush and Brushless impedance type motors! Excellent job! How to make use of many motors! Thank you! 😊
Dude you rock! I learn so much watching you. Thank you for your time, and effort you put into your videos.
You are an absolutely phenomenal teacher. I’m subscribing. Thank you!!
Thank you...and welcome to the neighborhood!
Hey bro. that was easy to follow for a layman. Thank you
Great video I was a generator mechanic in the military and you are a far better teacher than the guys who taught me very informative easy to follow nicely done
Listening to you talking makes it much easier... You certainly have a gift
He’s the best- It’s clear how much knowledge he has but his ability to disseminate that knowledge to such a wide audience is his real skill, so effortless. I hope your channel keeps growing
Many Thanks the mystery of the washing machine motor explained. Keep up the good work.
Very nice video & explanation. I was an electronics tech for a couple of decades, but never really had to learn much about AC motors. Your videos are a big help.
I could so watch your channel all day, thanks Mr. Fielding!
As a maintenance technician, I want to tell you you did an excellent job explaining motor basics. I wish I could communicate that well.
You are extremely appreciated. Your videos are informative, concise and clear. If you aren't teaching a class on these subjects, you should be. You make everything easy to understand for the beginner and in a non-condesending/intimidating manner. Thank you very much!!
Brilliantly clear! Exactly what I needed to get a stray motor running!!
As always, your vids are extremely valuable. You are a great teacher. Thank you.
Excellent video with good clear explanations. Keep up the good work.
You are an EXCELLENT communicator. Your expanations are very clear and simple enough for non-technical or barely-technical people to understand and you never stray from your objective. Please continue to provide this awesome service.
+shrink643 thank you!
Thank you. My grinder motor went out is a 6ft flame. I am using the same washer motor you did. I just added a pulley. Your method helped me greatly to get it going. Again thank you. You are truly a gift
Super helpful. I have an AC blower motor and wondered if I could figure out how to use it somehow. Your video answered all of my questions. Thanks!
Thanks for the videos. As someone who has no knowledge or experience with electrical work and is just looking to run a machine, inexpensively, I find the "Absolute Beginner" video more helpful.
Thank you for the feedback. Are there particular parts you found difficult in this video? I am just guessing, but I would say the multi-meter steps are the most difficult being that so many new concepts have to be used ... I am trying to get a feel for which area need more explaining for future videos.
You helped me wire up a dishwasher motor, thanks!
Excellent...I enjoy learning from this video, got my old washer still, thinking of what i'am going to use it in my next project...Thank you.👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for making this video. I just "aquired" a blower motor from a dumpster, and this helps.
thank you for what youre doing the future belongs to those who provide great value
Hey Jeremy, I’m retired now and do handyman work for for my church and some of the members. Thanks for the videos. You’re a good teacher. That cleared up some confusion for me. Thank you so much. Jim
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A very good tutorial, Jeremy. The part I liked the most was how you determined the start winding.
The video that you made, is a very well made & is a must for anyone just starting out playing with motors. You covered what people need to know. Especially liked your warning about the capacitors. They are very dangerous and people don’t realize how dangerous they really are. I use a lightbulb to discharge mine. I wired up a lightbulb socket and switch with a 50 watt resistor. I don’t like to use the screwdriver method. Did it to many times to old CRT tubes. You have a very well made video. Yes and very likable teacher. That is the one thing that got me to write a comment. I leave very few comments. The pace an inflection, tone , & pace of your speech. Was very good. Better than most professors I’ve ever had.
Mr fielding, you're a damn inspiration. Hats off to you fella, u got it
Agreed, whatever "it" is he has it. 👍
Regardless the content of your videos, I really like the way you explain everything in your videos.. Very friendly and catchy explanation.. Has details yet so simple.. You should've been a teacher.. Or maybe you are.. Doesn't matter, obviously you are a teacher in your channel.. Just keep it up.. Don't change anything.. I like it and I can see other viewers love the way you help us enriching our knowledge.. And now I know what I can do with my very old unused washing machine.. Thanks.. (proceed to subscribe)
Thank you!
@@JeremyFieldingSr you are welcome
@@JeremyFieldingSr your videos helps a lot thanks for sharing your knowledge you're scary smart LOL again thanks a lot
Good job explaining the start capacitor. So many people think it supplies inrush current. You got it correct.
Thanks Jeremy. I was able to get an old washer motor running to put on my bandsaw. I followed your advice on use of the ohm meter to locate start windings and to avoid direct shorts. I used a capacitor with lower capacity, but it works fine.
You are an excellent teacher.... You have taught me loads...thank you.
Keith Cheeseman I see what you did there.
Such a great teacher, I'm in a whole new phase of electrical motor knowledge.
After he unwound this problem I feel charged and ready to brush up my woodshop with some new contraptions.
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Thanks for the vid. I’ve collected tons of motors over the years, ran only a few through trial and error. Definitely helpful, now I just need to learn how to use my multimeter. 😆
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The way you explain things makes alot of sense. I appreciate you man
Very helpful. In fact, I look for your videos as you make it easier to understand than anyone else.
+greg cancel thank you!
Excellent explanation! Thanks, and please keep em comin!
+itaintmebabe99 that’s the plan... and thank you!
Great video, very helpful. For anyone else working with a potentially charged capacitor, yes, short it (with a screwdriver or insulated wire) every time before you touch it. But I'll add: short it again a few seconds later. The first discharge tends to get rid of most of the charge, but if it you do it too quickly, the capacitor tends to rebound and regain some charge as it sits and the remaining charge imbalance collects on the plates, which can still lead to an unpleasant shock. The rebound voltage level is lower, so probably not a concern with 120V, but definitely with high voltage. Those microwave oven capacitors are designed for high voltage and so they tend to have a 1M ohm "bleeder resistor" built in across the terminals (and indicated on the label) which slowly discharges the capacitor in a few seconds after the external voltage is removed, to mitigate shock hazard. This can be puzzling if you aren't aware of it: the cap won't appear to hold a charge if you are testing it to see if it is still good, but this is by design.
Outstanding instructional video! Simply explained, and it can be simply followed.
Thanks for this valuable information!!! I've had a 1/4 hp electric motor sitting on my workbench for years and I'll finally put it to good use...
I´ve got lots of electric motors and i didn´t knew how to cable them. tommorow i will try. Thans a lot mr fielding, youre a really good man.
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wasn't even looking for help on this topic.I stumbled upon this video and was glued!!!
Thanks so much Jeremy for your educational videos. I am so thrilled tolearm from them.They are very user-friendly and informative. May God bless you for sharing with us this lovely information. I am a South African.
I recently found you on KZhead and I love the videos. I've learned a lot and I admire the ways you find to repurpose things. Very inspiring!
I am glad I am not the only one with a bunch of motors sitting around in my shop. I told my wife there really are people out there who understand. Where you been all my life bro. Great video.
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The Mars mission can dame sure use you ! Totally Outstanding on all your projects ! Thank You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why not the Venus mission??
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Good job
Yes your teaching skills are on point I learned some things thank you !
Thanks, a simple straight forward explanation of how to wires motors.
Hello Jeremy! First off, I am addicted to your channel! Your method of explanation is awesome and you providing drawings to further understand is great! I would like to know what if you received a motor from someone without an attached capacitor, how do you determine whether it is brushless or not? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide!
Great video thanks for the info
The BEST explanation I’ve seen. Thanks so much sir!!
Makes more sense to me now - you have a good way of demonstrating and explaining - keep up the good work.
I will never forget when I started playing with these motors, I had a vaccuum motor I had rewired. Being I was familiar with smaller drill motors, I thought oh this little thing wont have that much power. I was holding it when I plugged it in. It quickly left my grip, and begun bouncing around the kitchen floor as my daughter started screaming and running for the other room and I started scrambling for the wall socket!
Discharge capacitor by grounding each lead to ground, try not to discharge through the capacitor,could damage the electrolyte (on other types) or damage the internal part of the capacitor. :) using a resistor is a good way to discharge, called bleeder resistors. :)
Thank you for this video! Looks very practical all your demonstrations and details. I’m a dragline operator, I like to understand how the electricity goes in ac and run motors in dc I know it’s a process on between, but it’s awesome just know someone like you shearing with us your knowledge.
I've learned quite a bit and have gotten a number of useful ideas from this channel but have never thanked this guy!I would like to change that and say...thank you very much Jeremy Fielding!
Great teacher. subscribed
Don't forget that some washers, particularly front loader washers are 3 phase. They have a circuit board that creates the 3 phase. They do this so that the motor can be easily reversed. Some single phase appliance motors do not have a start capacitor.
Does this wiring work for all washing machines wired the same i got s motor out of a whirlpool its 120 vcd duty 3.8 a 710 rpm 4.6 a 15300 rpm and im pretty sure i didmt grab the capacitor can u use the motor without the capacitor?
It was also a front loader when i was taking it apart i was just scraping motor but after watching whag people can do with spare motors .anyhow i didnt thing of writing down the make or year i thouhht i grabed all the chips and wires but i didnt see the capacitor when i was putting it together again . Also i thought the this squar box was yhe capacitor but it says filter on it with other number .
Thank you for sharing with all of us, very clear and to the point, I'll be looking for more possibly.
Thanks for your time. I'm old but I like learning new things and making things.
The best tip here is to clamp the motor down before plugging it in. I suspect you learned that by experience.
🤣 Experience!?! 😎
Discharging capacitors is another good one! 💥😬
I plugged in a 10 hp motor at work the other day, I was all done fixing it and wanted to test it. I asked a guy to hold it while I plugged it in.....🤣🤣🤣 It almost ripped his arm off. (Joking, but yeah, always secure the motor.)
Haha ik I learned that by experience. Vacuum motor jumped off the bench and sucked a load of crud into the impellor and so j had to strip it all back and hammer out the worst of the damage
@@joehunt3512, fortunately, he died from 220/440 short to the case just before it could have ripped his arm off.
Do you remember when we were kids, the ads we'd see in comics for making a hovercraft from vacuum motors??
Great brief on safely wiring reclaimed motors! Let the fun begin!
I'm looking for motor for building a 24 in rock saw when I found your video. I appreciate you, thanks for your time and information and caring to make the video. Guys like you are propelling us into the future and inpowering DIY'ers like me
This was very useful - I think a wiring diagram of that second motor would help, just to be sure. (Also, you might get a salty e-mail from my wife because her vacuum cleaner went missing) :o
I would send you one I have 3 I found people didn't want to replace the belts. 80$ vacumes actually some where broken the bags were full or hair wound up lol
i got a motor from a dishwasher it had a run capacitor but has 3 wires (and one ground) any idea how to connect them ? (btw they had different resistant with each other and had continuity with each other... no idea if they are sorted :/ )
I added a note to the description for this kind of question. Please have a look Thanks!
therealnightwriter- That's so clever. You know, I had a electrical question so I googled it and it eventually landed me here. Here we also find a smaller youtuber that is likely to answer questions directly. Thanks for suggesting the thing were all doing champ:)
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Bino White I think you’re story shorted out somewhere, but I get u bro. I’d say a good mix of both is good. Watch electro boom he’s hilarious.
@Bino White you speak the truth brother. My millwright shop has a bunch of very very smart millwrights but they're BOOK SMART. They know the theory. Theory is only one part though. Hands on knowledge is more useful to me in my everyday tasks. I vant stand when guys fresh out of college start thinking they're full blown millwrights. To become a jack of all trades, it takes many many years....
Yes. A nicely made video that quickly/thoroughly details what each electric motor requires in order to function. A+ and thanks fer the enlightenment .
I sure do appreciate the info. I now understand why in the past i have been unsuccessful in making motors run when they were working in whatever I had taken them out of. Thanks for helping me understand what and why. Jim
English is not my first language so I have a question: in this video you use the words (if I am not mistaken) "hot" and "neutral" when referring to the cables you plug in the motor and in the video 36 ou use "north" and "south" when referring to the poles on the magnet. It´s THE correct way or ONE of the ways one can use? In portuguese (I´m from Brasil) we use words equivalent a "positive" and "negative" to the poles on a magnet or phases of electrical wires (or "neutral" sometimes as substitute to "negative" in electrical phases/wires). BtW, good work in your videos!
Luciano Sturm I think you are referring to......... yes hot means positive and neutral = negative. Ground is bare wire or green.
These are two different types of motor wiring. When looking at the AC motor, the wires are referred to as "hot" and "neutral" and the current is alternating positive and negative many times per second. However, in the other video I am showing a DC motor. In DC Red is positive and Black is negative. The poles of the magnetic field is what is produced depending on which direction the wire is coiled. Clockwise vs counterclockwise with respect to current flow. It is hard to explain in the comments but I will talk more about this in next video about the differences between motor types.
North and south is only used for magnets which refer to the fact the north pole of the magnets points to earths North pole. But sometimes (or in your case, some languages) north is also called plus (and colored red) and south as minus. But it has NO reference to voltages. Because it's AC there is NO positive or negative. So Sorry Bobby ;) With normal AC there is no real difference between the two wires. But with mains we have Live/Line/Phase and Neutral/zero wire (fase and nuldraad in Dutch). In this case the Neutral is connected to earth somewhere in the system (yes, the real thing you're standing on) so it has no voltage between earth and neutral and so no voltage between you (standing on earth) and neutral. But the Line wire does!
Thanks!
10:08 Whether you are working on an AC or DC circuit if you don't have a voltage dropping resistor, the voltage stays at the capacitor for a while ( hence, the di electric ). Notice that if you have a monitoring or a pilot LED, it takes 3 to 5 seconds to completely vanish until it's gone.
Thank you so much for this vid. It really helped me make sense and diagnose an older electric motor that had a bad cap. When I took ownership of it, it just had a rats nest of wires coming out and no schematic or anything available. This video helped me trace everything and I new how to re-wire it. I watched at least 10 videos prior, none of them were helpful like yours, so thanks dude!! Cheers.
I had taken a motor out of a washer and had no idea how to make it work. With your video, i now have a chance at getting it to run, Kudos for that. The video also helped me understand which motors i could use variable speed controllers with and and which ones i cant and why. Thanks again for the helpful advice
Your explanation and demonstration is very helpful! Thank You.
Brother Jeremy , I am really proud of you for presenting about motors more than any geek I know about motors, even the best text books .
This is my new favorite channel, glad to have found it. Thanks!
Thanks for the incredible video. I think I might start salvaging reusable part for old machines!
Bless you, for taking the time to explain in such detail.
I found you after Googling how to wire a switch to an AC motor in an effort to upgrade my tablesaw setup. You have a great way of teaching and explaining concepts.
This was extremely helpful especially for me as an rookie engineer and a diy enthusiast
Practical, concise, hard won knowledge here. Always a pleasure to watch. Thank you.
Super helpful! Thank you very much! I bought a cheap vacuum pump off ebay and it came with an external capacitor and I had no idea what to do with it. Now I know!