Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
No, everything works perfectly except for this. The only exception is last summer the ancient AC went out (15+ yo) and took a 220 VAC circuit breaker with it. Both the AC and the circuit breaker were replaced and the AC has been working perfectly ever since.
The 1st vacuum was plugged into an exterior outlet that has so much rotten siding around it that rain fall directly into the utility box (whatever it's called). I'll post a pic tomorrow to show how horrific it is. I intend to cut this box out of the...
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
I'm resurrecting this old thread because I think that the house wiring is to blame.
After a while I got tired of messing with the vacuum, so I bought a brand-new one. It sat in the garage for about 6 weeks until I had time to mess with it.
Put it together, plugged it in, turned it on and it worked normally for a few minutes. I ran it along the toe-kick in front of the kitchen cabinets, picking up loose hair and cobwebs. Got about 20 linear feet done and the brand-new vacuum started smelling...Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
I've been traveling all day and my brain is fried. I read all the posts and will get into the details of them all tomorrow.
I don't think it's "tamper proof". I've seen those and I hate them. I assume the type you are talking about have some kind of plastic shield that slides out of the way when you plug something in. If so, this outlet is not one of those. I've never had any trouble with this outlet before.
If the "It's the outlet" people are correct, then the...Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
I did a continuity test on the cable, on both sides and they tested short, and they tested open from one cable to the next. The Plug appears to be in good condition. How would I verify the plug is good or bad beyond this?...Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
The outlet tests good with a standard household light bulb plugged in (a home-made "trouble light". It's also brand-new. I've used a household vacuum cleaner in that outlet within the week. It's one of the most-used outlets in the whole house. I converted a simple switch (for the lights in the garage) to a switch + outlet because an outlet in that location was necessary for lots and lots of things, and I've been using it for lots of things since I installed it.
Another thing I think I noticed...Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
Travelling today. I'll get that posted later on this evening when I get back....Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
The wiring in this house is completely f*****. Before we moved in, there was a house fire and this is the area of the house that burned. Afterwards, some kind of professional "flipping" company did the repairs and they did horrible terrible things with everything, such as painting over charred wood, and other things with the wiring too terrible to even mention. So defective wiring is on the list for possible suspects in every outlet in the entire house....Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
Yes. At first I thought it was going to "go", and then it died, looked over my shoulder and saw the outlet.
It's a brand-new switch/outlet. I replaced it less than a year ago because I wanted an outlet near the door that connects the house to the garage. I haven't tested the outlet yet to see if it's hot or not. I don't think a circuit breaker flipped, but it might have. Have not checked that yet either.
I don't know if by "bad contact" you mean the outlet...Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
I carefully reassembled the motor per your diagram, making sure to keep the thermal protection on the black, switched, "L" side of the motor. Plugged it in, turned and turned it on. It ran for about 3 seconds and then this happened:...Last edited by Used_Cars; 03-21-2018, 06:55 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
Oh. I posted the previous post before looking at your modified pic. I'll follow that diagram and post results. Thanks for the artwork....Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
Okay.
So the more I am forced to type out what I think I know, the more I actually KNOW what's going on. I've looked at this and thought about it enough to (think I) know that the only real question I have is which side of the circuit the [U]thermal cut-off[/U] needs to be on (thanks, redwire).
Does it go on the white, common, "always felt" side, or the black, switched side? Does it matter?
Since I never tried to run the motor after it cut-off, I have no reason to...Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
I don't know what happened to the motor. As mentioned in the OP, I was busily minding my own business in a bee suit ruthlessly murdering africanized bees and suddenly my weapon stopped working.
Look. I didn't understand a word of any of that. "Fed" this and "Fed" that. This is freaking electronics, not Chef Ramsay's Kitchen. It's hard enough trying to remember 30 year old electronics training (that I never used), without all these euphemistic words being thrown around. I have a white wire...Last edited by Used_Cars; 03-15-2018, 07:26 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
I decided to take pic and do a graphic of the continuity tests.
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
No. Just assumed something fried and opened it up a couple months later.
It's one speed. You "reverse" the hose to the fan's output to make it a blower.
Thanks. Good to know I was at least in the ballpark.
After reading this, I just tested all four posts ("N1", etc...) against the Stator and all read open. Which I assume means it's good. Also I just posted continuity tests between all the terminals in the post above....Last edited by Used_Cars; 03-15-2018, 05:29 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
The AC cord is two-prong, no ground wire. The white wire goes directly to the motor, the black wire goes through a switch before going from there directly to the other side of the motor.
I double-checked the continuity tests. Calling the two sets of terminals posts "N1 and N2", and "Not N1 and Not N2":
N1 to N2 reads open
Not N2 to Not N2 reads open
N1 to Not N1 reads short
N2 to Not N2 reads short.
I can post a pic labeling the posts,...Last edited by Used_Cars; 03-15-2018, 05:47 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
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Help With Reassembling Basic 110 VAC Motor
My "Ridgid" brand shop vac stopped working in a puff of white smoke because I was vacuuming bees out of a junk TV set (while wearing a bee suit) and it started to "misty" rain. I thought I'd burned the thing permanent, so never tried to turn it back on.
Disassemble the motor housing and extracted the Motor, disassembled the motor. Very simple, very basic. Visual inspection shows the brushes both look good, no scorching or burning on the stator, it spins freely, the cord ohms good, the switch ohms good and the ONLY thing I can see that might have shut the thing...Last edited by Used_Cars; 03-15-2018, 12:57 PM. -
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Thanks but all of this is aimed at making a battery pack of the highest capacity batteries on the market, which I'm assuming is Li-ION and that there isn't something better/newer out there.
I have fewer questions now because some of this is starting to make sense....Leave a comment:
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Re: Looking for Recommendation for a Cheap Multimeter with Ammeter Function
I did some reading last night after posting this and taking the "it's the aftermarket stereo system" theory one step further, one guy I read said that these aftermarket bass units (the truck has a huge one) get turned on by the head unit, and then wait for the head unit to tell them to turn off. If the head unit doesn't send some kind of "off" signal, the bass unit stays on constantly until the battery dies.
Well. In my case the battery never actually dies;...Last edited by Used_Cars; 03-01-2018, 11:22 AM.Leave a comment:
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