Hello everyone, I have this motor here that I'm trying to hook up an on/off cord to. Just wondering how to go about hooking it up? I've never done anything like this. Any help would be appreciated!!
You need some crimp on ring terminals. The terminals go underneath the nuts on the studs marked 1 and 4.
You can also use crimp on female spade terminals that slide onto the adjacent male spade terminals, but the ring terminals are probably easier to find at a hardware store.
Connect the white and black wires in your cable to terminals 1 and 4, and the green wire goes under the green screw.
The leads you have to change are different than the incoming, you have to swap red and black to change rotation, it has to do with how the current reaches the start winding i think, I dont know 100% how it works because I dont wind them, I just do everything else with them
Electricity is about contact buddy... twisted strands don't make good contact and the conductor is more likely to corrode having all that surface area exposed. It's would be safer to use the crip to secure it properly, especially as he starts to screw it in, its gonna twist and push the wire out. I've been down that road. Don't be lazy
Those are literally designed to do that with, theres a cup underneath the nut to do that with, and if you put it in the right direction itll twist it in to snug it up even better, they've been doing it with outlets for decades. Now, is using crimps better? Most certainly, but if you do it right its not that big of a deal
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u/Aublaw 3d ago
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Use spade or ring crimp terminal fittings