Yeah, I know, there's a group by that name devoted to abuse. Nevertheless:

Wingnut (who should have known better) hooked up a new compressor-unit
blower motor to a non-split capacitor instead of the stand-alone variety
capacitor.

Fried the blower motor.

My quest is for the basic reason(s) on what went wrong, that is, why would
connecting the capacitor leads to a non-split capacitor (that's where the
previous motor was connected) vary from a stand-alone capacitor on a PSC
blower motor.

Thanks for adding to my store of probably never-needed-again knowledge.

My first guess is that the capacitor must be matched to the starting winding
so that current amplitude in that winding is high enough to produce the
torque needed to turn the motor and its load, but not high enough to burn
out the winding. Also the phase angle between the current in the main
winding and the current in the starting winding must ideally approach 90
degrees. That phase angle is determined by the inductance of the winding
but more so by the capacitance of the capacitor. Did the microfarad rating
differ between the two capacitors?

Second guess . . . bad capacitor.

"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Yeah, I know, there's a group by that name devoted to abuse. Nevertheless:

Wingnut (who should have known better) hooked up a new compressor-unit
blower motor to a non-split capacitor instead of the stand-alone variety
capacitor.

Fried the blower motor.

My quest is for the basic reason(s) on what went wrong, that is, why would
connecting the capacitor leads to a non-split capacitor (that's where the
previous motor was connected) vary from a stand-alone capacitor on a PSC
blower motor.

Thanks for adding to my store of probably never-needed-again knowledge.