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William Noble William Noble is offline
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Default Need help, 5 HP 1 ph Baldor buzzes loudly, does not spin


"Jon Elson" wrote in message
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Ignoramus29659 wrote:

I think that what I will do is 1. Take off the rear endbell again, and
clean contacts some more
2. Try VERY carefully to measure resistance between them (hard to do)



Measure resistance of start cap. It should be infinity after a few
seconds on the meter. If not, it is bad. most common failure of
cap-start motors.

Jon


agree with Jon that symptoms sound like badly leaking start cap - try a
replacement


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