Awl --

Did Baldor munge a 5 hp 3 ph into a big-assed 5 hp *single phase*??
Nice motor, of course.

But with *3* large oil-filled caps, like what you would find on an rpc.

AND it's reversible!

Which leads me to believe it is actually a 3 ph. motor, with starting caps.

Four wires are in the junction box, two thick, two thin, with a thick/thin
tied together.
I think you reverse the motor by exchanging the two thick wires, just as on
a 3ph, and apropos of reversing a statically converted motor, as in the rpc
ganging thread.

A likely scenario???

Too bad they didn't bring out more wires, so's you could have the option of
using it as an unencumbered 3 ph motor.

Funny thing: three wires are coming from the caps to the motor.
Poss. distributed across L1-L3 *and* L2-L3?? I don't think one wire is a
ground, didn't ring anything out yet.

--
DT