Others who consider this forum as their own personal stomping ground will delete this post since they can't pull out slide rule and tell you the answer. They may think your post is too trivial or not "technical" enough to meet their personal interests and give little thought as to crushing what I would consider a legitimate post for an "Electric motors & CONTROLS engineering Forum." So don't be surprised if your post is gone later today.
As for your answer, you want to swap the "start" winding leads around to reverse the direction. They are typically the red & black leads or the 5 & 8 leads.
If they are not marked as such, give me a better description of the wiring and how they are hooked up.
Did you notice if the motor sounded different or ran poorly with the swapping of your leads?
A standard single phase induction motor is reversible.
You more than likely will have to open the motor to get at the START windings. Is there a capacitor mounted on/in the motor and do you see a centrifugal switch inside on the shaft?
From your description I had guessed you had a motor from Taiwan.
Mark each pair of leads that has continuity with each other.
Open the motor and you should see that one pair has just one wire going to each lead.
The other pair has TWO wires to each lead. This is the set we are concerned with.
Look closely and you should see that one wire on each of these leads is identical in size to the other set of wires going to the other set of leads. These two larger wires are the other RUN windings. Those two wires stay with their colored leads.
The other two wires on each of the leads, one from possibly the start switch or capacitor and a smaller wire on the other lead, are the ones that you will be swapping.
Carefully reinsulate the leads and try the motor.
If the you have nothing similar to what I described, tell me how they are hooked.
Steve
I can’t help but wondering what/who you’re mad at.
If it’s me, I apologize for dwelling on the theoretical more than the practical. It happens that I am stronger on the theoretical side than on the practical side for motors. That’s nothing to be proud of… it’s just the way I am.
If I see a practical thread like this where I don’t know the answer I just sit back and let the folks with the experienced folks like yourself answer. I personally have never red-flagged any thread except when tempers got totally out of control.
I remember why I hate those little motors. You have to dig into the windings to change the direction.
From what you describe, every motor lead has only ONE wire connected to each lead.
You say there is a blue wire connecting the capacitor to the WINDING. Disconnect the blue wire from the winding. Label that winding lead #5. Check for continuity on #5 and see which LEAD it connects to. From that lead it should split off to two windings (you will more than likely have to follow the lead back into the windings to find where the two are connected). Cut both of those wires from the lead and check which one has continuity to #5 (it should be the smaller of the two wires). Label that lead #8. You now have the start and finish of the start winding. Swapping 5 & 8 will reverse the motor.
To check your work, ONLY 5 & 8 will have continuity to each other. They will not show continuity to any other wires.
Reconnect the other wire back to the motor lead as it was.
Make sure the motor is properly grounded.
Cross your fingers and try it.
These forums are all of ours personal stomping ground. The forums are specifically geared toward engineering professionals discussing technical work issues.
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Suggestion to ckingtools (Mechanical) Aug 5, 2002
How would it be possible to change the rotation on a 110/220 motor that is 1 phase induction, class E, 2 pole?
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