Hi,
Thank you for the reply.
The photo on the left shows the motor wiring, will that do or do you require other?
Phil
To someone with the motor data sheet, a nameplate schematic, or prior hands-on with that make of motor or even Aussie-market motors in general, almost certainly enough.
As Oz doesn't even use the same wire colour codes as USA, and Hong Kong "solved" their mongrelized imported sources by adopting three CONFLICTING colour codes as standards to avoid accusations of bias? I'd have to get back of that plate with at least a meter.
Good news is it may at least BE set up for reversing. Not all 1-P motors are, hence helpful if the data plate were published here.
Not-so-good news, and hopefully NOT a problem for you is that some of the 1-P motors I have had to reverse needed more than three switchable contacts to make it work, AND meet the need of disconnecting BOTH 230 VAC feeds.
Your 3-P / dual-use switch seems to display only three contact sets. It may have the "contact forms" of a simpler "disconnect" switch, 3PST. Drum switches for machine-tools usually have more complex contact forms, DT - Double Throw, or even 3T or DT 3 pos, centre OFF, and often at least one more set of contacts.
Meanwhile, MOST 1-P motors do not inherently care which direction they run. They ignore wiring reversal on-the-fly.
One has to start them in a given direction, they follow suit. Bring to a full stop, start them the other way, same again.
That can involve two wires for the starting arrangement, one DPDT or DPDT center OFF switch. Two more poles are needed to interrupt the mains power, both legs, not just the one.
Jurisdictions such as UK or Hong Kong where human life was traditionally cheaper than Copper for wire or Iron for centre-tapped transformers, 230 VAC may have one side Earthed, and you'll only have to switch the one mains lead. Their country, their priorities. Even the over-crowded Japanese were wiser. Go figure.
Patience. We have several members downunder. One might recognize your motor and be able to nail it in one go.