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Graeme Graeme is offline
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Default Help wiring an AC motor


I have a motor which runs on 16v AC. It has a double wound field coil,
and is more correctly a universal motor, as it will also run on DC, but
that is irrelevant, I think.

There are four terminals. Power runs from a transformer to A, which is
one side of the field coil.

From there, current runs through the field coil to B, and from B to C,
which is one brush. The other brush is D, from where current runs back
to the transformer.

To reverse the motor, wires are swapped, so that power coming out of the
field coil (B) goes to brush D (not C), and back to the transformer via
C, not D.

What I cannot work out is how to use a switch, or switches, to achieve
remote reversing of the motor. Ideally, I would have two push buttons,
one for each direction, but any switch would suffice. The switch(es)
need to be able to supply the power, and swap the way the brush caps are
connected.

Any thoughts on the switches I need, and how to wire them would be
appreciated. The motor only needs to run for about twenty seconds, in
either direction.
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Graeme