Dorf Needs Wiring help.

[David Eisan]

Dear All,

I am used to Leeson and Baldor motors where you open the cover and there are only three wires. You throw some wire nuts on the white-white, black-black, green-green and Keef's your list mom.

I have never seen a terminal bus under the motor cover with so many coloured (colored, Keith) wires before,

http://members.rogers.com/moreweb/images/wiring.jpg

And I find it hard to beleive that they have been so kind as to suggest where the wires should go with the two dinky brown wires. From the image, does it look that simple? Plug black and white into where the little brown wires are, with the green ground going to the green/yellow at the top of the bus in the image?

Background, this is a made in Italy, Lafert 3 hp, 220 volt, single phase, metric flange mount motor for my Wadkin/Bursgreen 20" bandsaw.

<<while idiot boy has his Klein linesmen pliers out, he decides to tackle wiring a magnetic starter, afterall, just how dangerous can 220 volts at 30 amps be?>>

I am pretty sure I have a handle on this one, but I thought I would check here with my imaginary friends,

http://members.rogers.com/moreweb/images/mag.jpg

I have my little red P1 and P2 where I am pretty sure juice flows in from the grid of mystery, and M1 and M2 where the motor should be wired to.

This is from a DanFoss magnetic starter.

Looks correct?

Thanks,

David.

Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.

[John Preston]

The european color code is brown hot, blue neutral, and the yellow wire as ground.

If I understood your email, the mfr suggests to hook the two hots to brown, and the ground to the yellow.

If you had a four wire cable, then you would use the blue.