I bought a Harbor Freight 1 HP Ag/Farm Duty motor as a replacement. I've got 9 wires and a wiring diagram that I do NOT understand.
P1 ---------------------------------- Line Blue + T1 ------------------------ Ins Red + P2 + Orange ---------- Ins Black + White + Yellow ---- Line 2
I've got White, Black & Green wires. Green connects inside the motor. Where the hell do all the other wires connect????
Connect to black
Connect to each other, and nothing else. Insulate the connection.
Connect to each other, and nothing else. Insulate the connection.
Connect to each other and white.
You might want to spend a few bucks on an electrician if this was that non-obvious.
Ecnerwal,
You might want to spend a few bucks on an electrician if this was that non-obvious.
Actually the layout you gave was what I guessed, but I'm smart enough to verify something I'm not sure of. Sometimes the "obvious" isn't. Undergraduate & graduate school in the natural sciences and 30+ years of system design & programming have made me very cautious. I REALLY DO appreciate your confirmation of the correct connections.
My question is, once I know the right connections, why should I spend money & more importantly time to do something like splicing wires?
Because your original post indicated that you had no idea how to connect this, which lead me to doubt whether you have the skills/knowledge to connect it correctly, even if you know what to connect to what. Splicing wires can be done wrong, and that can lead to a fire. For instance, you might think to solder the wires together - bad idea on a 1 hp motor - use wire nuts, or another mechanical method. Even wire nuts can be used wrong, resulting in connections that overheat. Supply wires can be undersized, not suited to the temperature in the motor junction box, etc...
I'm not an electrician, but I have done considerable time as technician working on electrical and mechanical stuff, and some of the kludge jobs I've seen have made my hair stand on end. Ultimately, you'll have to assess your own skills and experience - based on your first post, I assessed them (imprecisely, from afar, based on what you told us) as potentially deficient...
I'm not overfond of paying $50 or $75 per hour for someone else to do things I can do, but that means I need to have a good realistic assessment of what I can do (and how well I can do it) when I'm dealing with things that might just burn my house down if I do them wrong. The same applies to you.
Well said.
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