Adenrich24
Plastic
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- Apr 12, 2019
I was struggling thinking of where to go for help with this without going to an electrician, might as well try here first.
Ive got a 2 hp air compressor motor that im wiring up for a belt sander but I cant for the life of me get it to work. Initially to test the motor I wired up the black and white leads coming off the motor to the two hot lines and the ground to the green wire, plugged it straight into the wall and it fired up and spun. I cant quite figure out how it worked in the first place seeing as the green wire isnt actually acting as a line but as the ground. All the pictures are the sections ive got to try and get this to work, keep in mind i will be changing out the wire thats going from the motor to the switch since the 12 gauge wire isnt enough to sustain a load. Both prongs on the outlet are reading 120 volts, and the ground lug has no volts. Every time i flip the breaker on with the switch set to off the breaker either blows or its fine until i switch to the on position, where it blows the main breaker to the entire shop. Any ideas?
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Ive got a 2 hp air compressor motor that im wiring up for a belt sander but I cant for the life of me get it to work. Initially to test the motor I wired up the black and white leads coming off the motor to the two hot lines and the ground to the green wire, plugged it straight into the wall and it fired up and spun. I cant quite figure out how it worked in the first place seeing as the green wire isnt actually acting as a line but as the ground. All the pictures are the sections ive got to try and get this to work, keep in mind i will be changing out the wire thats going from the motor to the switch since the 12 gauge wire isnt enough to sustain a load. Both prongs on the outlet are reading 120 volts, and the ground lug has no volts. Every time i flip the breaker on with the switch set to off the breaker either blows or its fine until i switch to the on position, where it blows the main breaker to the entire shop. Any ideas?
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