pdilley
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i spoke to my father today (technition of 40 years including fridges, washing machines, tvs, vcrs, dvds, you name it) the contact that has 2 poles (the bottom one in your pics) is the start winding contactor and the top one is an overload one if the motor draws to much current it disconects the power and saves the day!! (or motor i should say)
Perfect, thanks for all that
I've written up about 4 pages of notes, drawings and theories of the operation to give to a motor winder for verification. I had the top down as overload and bottom down as starting.
All I need to figure out is the top overload is Red and Red/White coil which is not connected to the triangle. Therefore I thought this coil was the Rotor and the triangle represents the windings in the Stator. That means however that once energized, three coils are working. The 6Ohm rotor, and both the 11Ohm and 8Ohm stator coils. Still does not tell me how two-speeds are achieved yet nor what that Black wire to inductive pickup over a winding coil does. Few more thinks and I may have it with your help and everyone elses input already provided above.
Cheers,
Brewer Pete