Jameel Abraham
12-07-2007, 2:27 PM
Well, not quite....
I have a 5hp motor on a particular machine that maybe 25% of the time gives a loud pop (an electrical pop) and a bright flash (like a strobe) from the machines cabinet (there's a gap under it so it lights up the floor quite a bit).
The manufacturer had me take the motor apart and clean the contacts in the centrifugal switch.
I'm in the middle of that right now, but it sounds to me (and I'm no motor expert) that the points were slightly apart, and when starting the machine, sometimes they would arc and create the pop and flash. So I'm assuming these points should be contacting each other very nicely in the off postition?
I have a 5hp motor on a particular machine that maybe 25% of the time gives a loud pop (an electrical pop) and a bright flash (like a strobe) from the machines cabinet (there's a gap under it so it lights up the floor quite a bit).
The manufacturer had me take the motor apart and clean the contacts in the centrifugal switch.
I'm in the middle of that right now, but it sounds to me (and I'm no motor expert) that the points were slightly apart, and when starting the machine, sometimes they would arc and create the pop and flash. So I'm assuming these points should be contacting each other very nicely in the off postition?