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Hi all,
In my search for wiring information I've come upon this group. Maybe someone here can help me out. I'm in the process of heating my shop with an outdoor wood burning boiler, (it heats my home also). I just had a squirrel cage fan given to me and I really don't have a clue as to how to wire it up. I don't even know what it came out of but here's what the tag on the motor says; EMERSON MODEL K55HXLGF-3701 HP 3/4 VOLT 115 HZ 60 AMP 11.0 PH 1 R.P.M. 1075/4SP THERMALLY PROTECTED PT NO 51-21459-02 MFG. NO K92 C INS CL A AIR OVER CONT FRAME 48Y Also over on the right side of the tag it has; 12.5MFD 370 VAC CAPACITOR It has 7 total wires, ( one being the green case ground) the other 6 wires are; Red Blue Yellow White Black Brown I'm guessing a few things here; 1. This is a 4 speed motor? 2. I'll need a 12.5MFD 370 VAC CAPACITOR? 3. To get 4 speeds I'll also need a 4 speed switch? Questions; 1. How do I wire this thing? (Of course!) 2. Where do I get the capaciter, (if I need it)? 3. Where do I get a 4 speed switch, (and approximate price)? 4. Could I wire it up for 1 speed only? I'm definately not an electrician. I'm familiar with household wiring but not the technical terms and what they mean, so you'll have to keep your explainations simple as best you can. Thanks in advance! (I just hope I can find this again) LOL! |
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"Christopher Tidy" wrote in message ... wrote: Hi all, In my search for wiring information I've come upon this group. Maybe someone here can help me out. I'm in the process of heating my shop with an outdoor wood burning boiler, (it heats my home also). I just had a squirrel cage fan given to me and I really don't have a clue as to how to wire it up. I don't even know what it came out of but here's what the tag on the motor says; EMERSON MODEL K55HXLGF-3701 HP 3/4 VOLT 115 HZ 60 AMP 11.0 PH 1 R.P.M. 1075/4SP THERMALLY PROTECTED PT NO 51-21459-02 MFG. NO K92 C INS CL A AIR OVER CONT FRAME 48Y Catalog shows that's from a Rheem... |
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Rick wrote:
"Christopher Tidy" wrote in message ... wrote: Hi all, In my search for wiring information I've come upon this group. Maybe someone here can help me out. I'm in the process of heating my shop with an outdoor wood burning boiler, (it heats my home also). I just had a squirrel cage fan given to me and I really don't have a clue as to how to wire it up. I don't even know what it came out of but here's what the tag on the motor says; EMERSON MODEL K55HXLGF-3701 HP 3/4 VOLT 115 HZ 60 AMP 11.0 PH 1 R.P.M. 1075/4SP THERMALLY PROTECTED PT NO 51-21459-02 MFG. NO K92 C INS CL A AIR OVER CONT FRAME 48Y Catalog shows that's from a Rheem... Having searched for Rheem online, I'll eat my words. It looks like this is indeed a four speed motor. All the fans of this size I've seen in England have been fixed speed using a PSC motor, with the smaller ones using shaded pole motors. If anyone knows the exact arrangement of windings these motors use, I'd be interested to know. Sorry for the confusion! Chris |
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:26:19 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Tidy
wrote: wrote: Hi all, In my search for wiring information I've come upon this group. Maybe someone here can help me out. I'm in the process of heating my shop with an outdoor wood burning boiler, (it heats my home also). I just had a squirrel cage fan given to me and I really don't have a clue as to how to wire it up. I don't even know what it came out of but here's what the tag on the motor says; EMERSON MODEL K55HXLGF-3701 HP 3/4 VOLT 115 HZ 60 AMP 11.0 PH 1 R.P.M. 1075/4SP THERMALLY PROTECTED PT NO 51-21459-02 MFG. NO K92 C INS CL A AIR OVER CONT FRAME 48Y Also over on the right side of the tag it has; 12.5MFD 370 VAC CAPACITOR It has 7 total wires, ( one being the green case ground) the other 6 wires are; Red Blue Yellow White Black Brown This is standard blower motor wiring. Brown will be to the capacitor with the other leg of the capacitor to one of the line in wires (but I can't remember which off the top of my head some motors have two brown which both go to the capacitor and don't use the line wire to capacitor). Black will be high, blue med high, yellow med low, and red low. White is neutral. I very much doubt that this is a four speed motor. I've never seen a four speed induction motor and I doubt they exist. They would be very bulky and probably inefficient, too. Then you've not been around many central heating units have you. They exist and in fact are real common. The data plate just gives one speed, so I think this is a single speed motor. 1075 rpm fits with a six pole machine running on 60 Hz. The data plate also mentions thermal protection, so I'm guessing that two of the wires lead to a thermal cut-out. What follows is my best guess about the motor type. It's a capacitor run motor which is standard for blower motors. Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook/index.htm |
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Wayne Cook wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:26:19 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Tidy wrote: wrote: Hi all, In my search for wiring information I've come upon this group. Maybe someone here can help me out. I'm in the process of heating my shop with an outdoor wood burning boiler, (it heats my home also). I just had a squirrel cage fan given to me and I really don't have a clue as to how to wire it up. I don't even know what it came out of but here's what the tag on the motor says; EMERSON MODEL K55HXLGF-3701 HP 3/4 VOLT 115 HZ 60 AMP 11.0 PH 1 R.P.M. 1075/4SP THERMALLY PROTECTED PT NO 51-21459-02 MFG. NO K92 C INS CL A AIR OVER CONT FRAME 48Y Also over on the right side of the tag it has; 12.5MFD 370 VAC CAPACITOR It has 7 total wires, ( one being the green case ground) the other 6 wires are; Red Blue Yellow White Black Brown This is standard blower motor wiring. Brown will be to the capacitor with the other leg of the capacitor to one of the line in wires (but I can't remember which off the top of my head some motors have two brown which both go to the capacitor and don't use the line wire to capacitor). Black will be high, blue med high, yellow med low, and red low. White is neutral. I very much doubt that this is a four speed motor. I've never seen a four speed induction motor and I doubt they exist. They would be very bulky and probably inefficient, too. Then you've not been around many central heating units have you. They exist and in fact are real common. Hot air central heating is uncommon in English homes. There was a fashion for using it in cheaply built 1960s and '70s homes, but it was generally poorly implemented and noisy, so it fell out of favour and the standard is now water central heating. We had a house with hot air central heating while I was at school. The boiler was like a coffin on end which stood in our kitchen. It had hardly any controls: on/off and a temperature control which you had to turn with a coin, if I remember correctly. Some large buildings here use hot air central heating, or water central heating with a blower behind the radiator. Those that I've seen either use a PSC motor or more commonly a three phase motor, but in both cases they've been single speed. Modern factory heating systems might use variable speed motors, but most of the stuff I work on dates back a few years. It looks like the domestic technology developed in the US, but died in England. Chris |
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:23:58 -0600, Wayne Cook
wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:26:19 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Tidy wrote: wrote: Hi all, In my search for wiring information I've come upon this group. Maybe someone here can help me out. I'm in the process of heating my shop with an outdoor wood burning boiler, (it heats my home also). I just had a squirrel cage fan given to me and I really don't have a clue as to how to wire it up. I don't even know what it came out of but here's what the tag on the motor says; EMERSON MODEL K55HXLGF-3701 HP 3/4 VOLT 115 HZ 60 AMP 11.0 PH 1 R.P.M. 1075/4SP THERMALLY PROTECTED PT NO 51-21459-02 MFG. NO K92 C INS CL A AIR OVER CONT FRAME 48Y Also over on the right side of the tag it has; 12.5MFD 370 VAC CAPACITOR It has 7 total wires, ( one being the green case ground) the other 6 wires are; Red Blue Yellow White Black Brown This is standard blower motor wiring. Brown will be to the capacitor with the other leg of the capacitor to one of the line in wires (but I can't remember which off the top of my head some motors have two brown which both go to the capacitor and don't use the line wire to capacitor). Black will be high, blue med high, yellow med low, and red low. White is neutral. I very much doubt that this is a four speed motor. I've never seen a four speed induction motor and I doubt they exist. They would be very bulky and probably inefficient, too. Then you've not been around many central heating units have you. They exist and in fact are real common. The data plate just gives one speed, so I think this is a single speed motor. 1075 rpm fits with a six pole machine running on 60 Hz. The data plate also mentions thermal protection, so I'm guessing that two of the wires lead to a thermal cut-out. What follows is my best guess about the motor type. It's a capacitor run motor which is standard for blower motors. Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook/index.htm He was right about ONE thing though, they are TERRIBLY inefficient. That's why DC variable speed blower motors are becoming more common - MUCH more efficient. |
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According to Christopher Tidy :
Wayne Cook wrote: This is standard blower motor wiring. Brown will be to the capacitor with the other leg of the capacitor to one of the line in wires (but I can't remember which off the top of my head some motors have two brown which both go to the capacitor and don't use the line wire to capacitor). Black will be high, blue med high, yellow med low, and red low. White is neutral. I very much doubt that this is a four speed motor. I've never seen a four speed induction motor and I doubt they exist. They would be very bulky and probably inefficient, too. Then you've not been around many central heating units have you. They exist and in fact are real common. Hot air central heating is uncommon in English homes. There was a fashion for using it in cheaply built 1960s and '70s homes, but it was generally poorly implemented and noisy, so it fell out of favour and the standard is now water central heating. We had a house with hot air central heating while I was at school. The boiler was like a coffin on end which stood in our kitchen. It had hardly any controls: on/off and a temperature control which you had to turn with a coin, if I remember correctly. Some large buildings here use hot air central heating, or water central heating with a blower behind the radiator. Those that I've seen either use a PSC motor or more commonly a three phase motor, but in both cases they've been single speed. Modern factory heating systems might use variable speed motors, but most of the stuff I work on dates back a few years. It looks like the domestic technology developed in the US, but died in England. One reason for the technology living on in the US is that here we tend to need air conditioning in the summer as well, and a combined hot-air furnace and air conditioner is a quite reasonable way to go about it. Enjoy, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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DoN. Nichols wrote:
snip Hot air central heating is uncommon in English homes. There was a fashion for using it in cheaply built 1960s and '70s homes, but it was generally poorly implemented and noisy, so it fell out of favour and the standard is now water central heating. We had a house with hot air central heating while I was at school. The boiler was like a coffin on end which stood in our kitchen. It had hardly any controls: on/off and a temperature control which you had to turn with a coin, if I remember correctly. Some large buildings here use hot air central heating, or water central heating with a blower behind the radiator. Those that I've seen either use a PSC motor or more commonly a three phase motor, but in both cases they've been single speed. Modern factory heating systems might use variable speed motors, but most of the stuff I work on dates back a few years. It looks like the domestic technology developed in the US, but died in England. One reason for the technology living on in the US is that here we tend to need air conditioning in the summer as well, and a combined hot-air furnace and air conditioner is a quite reasonable way to go about it. Enjoy, DoN. That makes good sense, Don. No one has air conditioning here. Also, if it's a combined AC/heating system, the inefficiency of the motor won't be an issue for half the year. Do you know the exact arrangement of windings employed in these motors? I'm curious to know. Best wishes, Chris |
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