So the good news is I rencetly got a beautiful new vintage machine which I will share with everyone once its up and running properly.
The bad news is after a few washloads the motor gave out. The motor starts just fine (the centrifugal switch is working perfectly) but in ten or so seconds you can hear the voltage drop and it cuts back into the start winding, click-click click click and is intermittent every few seconds after that. I suspect it needs to be rewound which is an expensive ordeal. I know for sure its not the timer because I wired it up with a test cord and it did the same thing.
The machine uses a 1 speed reversing motor. I have a spare two speed reversing GE motor from a Kelvinator washer but I have absolutely no wiring diagram to go along with it. So I took the motor new motor apart to examine the connections.
I obviously do not need to use the low speed winding in the circuit, all I want to be able to do is to figure out which wires will enable it to turn clockwise and then later reverse the polarities for counter-clockwise rotation in high speed only. I suspect the white wire is one side of the low speed winding (odd that they would have used the color beige/off-white for that).
Here is an image of the motor terminal board. I suspect the motor is made to start in high speed and if the low speed winding is called for it the centrifical switch will energize that winding once the motor switches from start to run. The centrifical switch seems to energize the blue wire in start mode and the white wire in run mode but these two wires are not part of the start winding (black and red are the start winding).
I know this is hard to analize (if not impossible) from a far but I thought I would throw it out there. The motor is model # 5KH47JR47S. By chance would anyone have a wiring diagram for this motor or guesses on which wires should go to one side of the line and which ones to the other? I really don't want to guess and short it.
Thanks everyone, the new machine is a rare beauty btw.
The bad news is after a few washloads the motor gave out. The motor starts just fine (the centrifugal switch is working perfectly) but in ten or so seconds you can hear the voltage drop and it cuts back into the start winding, click-click click click and is intermittent every few seconds after that. I suspect it needs to be rewound which is an expensive ordeal. I know for sure its not the timer because I wired it up with a test cord and it did the same thing.
The machine uses a 1 speed reversing motor. I have a spare two speed reversing GE motor from a Kelvinator washer but I have absolutely no wiring diagram to go along with it. So I took the motor new motor apart to examine the connections.
I obviously do not need to use the low speed winding in the circuit, all I want to be able to do is to figure out which wires will enable it to turn clockwise and then later reverse the polarities for counter-clockwise rotation in high speed only. I suspect the white wire is one side of the low speed winding (odd that they would have used the color beige/off-white for that).
Here is an image of the motor terminal board. I suspect the motor is made to start in high speed and if the low speed winding is called for it the centrifical switch will energize that winding once the motor switches from start to run. The centrifical switch seems to energize the blue wire in start mode and the white wire in run mode but these two wires are not part of the start winding (black and red are the start winding).
I know this is hard to analize (if not impossible) from a far but I thought I would throw it out there. The motor is model # 5KH47JR47S. By chance would anyone have a wiring diagram for this motor or guesses on which wires should go to one side of the line and which ones to the other? I really don't want to guess and short it.
Thanks everyone, the new machine is a rare beauty btw.
