"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:55b971df$0$29522
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"John McCoy" wrote:

A split-phase motor is a single phase motor with a starting
winding. Almost invariably they also have a starting capacitor,
and are usually called capacitor start motors.
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"Lew Hodgett" wrote:

Sorry but split phase motors NEVER have capacitors.
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"John McCoy" wrote:

I suggest you get out your electrical engineering
textbook. What you posted is incorrect.

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Perhaps you would care to share with the us your current
source, their price and availability of a split phrase motor
that is equipped with a capacitor.

All capactitor start motors are split-phase motors.

Since you didn't follow my suggestion to go look up what a
split-phase motor is, allow me to elucidate:

A split-phase motor is a single phase AC induction motor
with a starting winding.

It doesn't make a difference if you put a capacitor in series
with the starting winding or not, it's still a split-phase
motor.

By convention we call the ones with a capacitor "capacitor
start", and by implication if we don't call it capacitor
start then it's resistance-start (or reactance-start, same
thing to all intents and purposes).

The alternative to a split-phase motor is a shaded-pole
motor, which does not have a starting winding.

John