HELP, Electric Motor Guru's

[Gomez]

Re: HELP, Electric Motor Guru\'s

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Well, it's a single phase motor. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I agree with the suggestions given.

Sometimes motors hum because they don't know the words. (sorry) /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[JimR]

Re: HELP, Electric Motor Guru\'s

Junkman, I paid a visit to Auburn yesterday to have my capacitors checked out at Alfred Brown's. The people there are nice to deal with and checked them out for free. The capacitors checked out fine. They did mention to clean the two contacts on the rear motor plate. After cleaning the contacts on the motor it did start again. Sparks were flying out of the field windings and it finished burning up for good. I called Browns about rebuilding it and they said it wasn't worth it. A new one was almost $400.00 and of course not in stock. A search on E-bay brought up a distributer just north of Boston that sells electric motors and pumps. Today I picked up a Baldor 5HP 23 amp motor from them. The motor was rated 1 amp less than my old one. The price with a two piece pulley and tax was $297.45 out the door. This price also included a sleeved two piece pulley and the sales tax. One thing I can say about Baldor is that their motors are pretty strong. I could tell the difference right away with how fast my compressor was running. It makes me wonder if my old motor wasn't a lemon from the gitt-go. Maybe it has been dying a slow death for quite sometime? Anyway, the company was great to deal with and not too hard to find. Here is the website for all in the area to know if they need an electric motor for a reasonable price. They sold it to me for the price on E-bay. Here is their website www.weco-group.com
The name of the company is Williamson New England Electric Motor Service Corp. 111 Boston St. Everett, Ma. Check Ebay for prices before calling them. The price when I called was almost $80.00 higher than the E-bay price. They list on E-bay as seller weco-group. All I did was say that I saw the auctions on E-bay to get that price. Another Worcester based motor company quoted me a price of $450.00 to replace my 6hp Century motor. It was well worth the drive (100 miles round trip) to save over a $100.00 for a motor no one had in stock. They also take c.c.'s