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Old 04-01-2007, 04:19 AM
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OK, being your compressor is at home and you stated your bought a THREE PHASE MOTOR, normal service for a house is SINGLE PHASE. A single phase motor has four wires whereas a three phase motor has nine wires in the motor junction box. Give me all the motor data on the motor nameplate. i.e. volts, amps, frame no, hp, phase, insulation code etc. (how can I explain this easily......?) OK, your electric range at home runs on single phase AC, your electric dryer runs on single phase AC. A three phase AC motor will not run on SINGLE PHASE AC because it is missing one additional phase. If you bought a SINGLE PHASE motor from EBay then there'd be no problem. Jeez I wish this chat progrma was working - get back to me HayZee.
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