ATGNI
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I spend the day in the garage making a bracket to convert an old three phase belt sander to use a single phase motor found in a skipped drill press. I was feeling really smug with my efforts until I started it up and "yes" the belt runs in the wrong direction.
Apart from spinning the motor through 180 I dont think its possible to reverse a single phase motor unless the motor has an internal reverse winding. Dont know much about single phase motors and I am not sure if this is a capacitor start or a capacitor run type. The yellow and blue wires run inside the motor. The blue wires are the supply and I assume the capacitor is generating phase shift for the start winding current.
Any Ideas
Regards chris
Apart from spinning the motor through 180 I dont think its possible to reverse a single phase motor unless the motor has an internal reverse winding. Dont know much about single phase motors and I am not sure if this is a capacitor start or a capacitor run type. The yellow and blue wires run inside the motor. The blue wires are the supply and I assume the capacitor is generating phase shift for the start winding current.
Any Ideas
Regards chris