I'm thinking starter cap and possibly the run cap since they don't look very
pretty. I just have no idea what sympoms a motor suffers from when it has a
bad start cap..

I guess I'll check the caps with my esr meter.

- Mike


"Jamie" t wrote in message
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Michael Kennedy wrote:

I have a 120VAC 15A electric motor that is on an aircompressor that I
found. I plugged it in and the motor starts to spin slowly but never gets
going fast then trips the circuit breaker.

It spins eaisly by hand and the bearings seem to be okay. Does it
probably just need new capacitors? It has 2 120v 330uf caps on it.


- Mike
starting winding bad, centrifugal switch bad? starting cap
(if you have one) bad ?
who knows?


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