Does anybody have a diagram for a 3 speed Whirlpool direct drive without a speed selector switch? Trying a mod on my 1992 Kenmore 70 series, 2 speed-to-3 speed conversion. What I've found is that most 3 speed motors have a separate connector for the med/low speed with White>Violet being medium, White>Orange being low. On models w/o a speed switch, there is also an extra wire on the motor harness--Violet>White. Just need to know if & what then is the best way to wire that up so that the start capacitor and agitation direction is also in circuit with that. The med/low speed is going onto a separate SPDT toggle switch rated for that. Or do I need to have a whole separate timer cam for that? Generally you'd see said three wires on a separate cam altogether and the solid orange wire is still in tandem with the blue wire for high speed and the tan wire from the water level switch. I've added the wires for the two W-V & W-OR and it runs the med & low, but I still need to turn the motor manually to get it going. I just need to know how to wire it so it starts, and with that switch controlling it, starts in agitation direction only, because I don't want an ex-low speed spin of course lol.
Timer contacts on mine are as listed:
+______|_BK-W_+ BK
|__V__|_BK-W_+ GY
+_BK2_+_BK4__+ BK3
+_Y-R_+___P___+ BR
+______+___Y___+ W-BK
+_____+___R___+ W-BK
|_BU_|___T___| OR
+_____|___V___|
The 3 speed timers have it usually listed with that extra set of wires like this:
|W-OR|V-W |W-V
I'm thinking the V-W is what I'm missing here. But if I'm taking that set of wires and essentially moving it to the SPDT toggle switch, I just need to know what wire to "hack" to supply start power to that lower run winding. I wish Gordon was still around here regularly lol.
Timer contacts on mine are as listed:
+______|_BK-W_+ BK
|__V__|_BK-W_+ GY
+_BK2_+_BK4__+ BK3
+_Y-R_+___P___+ BR
+______+___Y___+ W-BK
+_____+___R___+ W-BK
|_BU_|___T___| OR
+_____|___V___|
The 3 speed timers have it usually listed with that extra set of wires like this:
|W-OR|V-W |W-V
I'm thinking the V-W is what I'm missing here. But if I'm taking that set of wires and essentially moving it to the SPDT toggle switch, I just need to know what wire to "hack" to supply start power to that lower run winding. I wish Gordon was still around here regularly lol.